MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Garib mean?
Garib comes through Urdu from Arabic gharīb, “stranger”. In Hindi and Punjabi the borrowed adjective commonly describes poverty or humility, the senses behind its personal-name use.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ग़रीब
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗ਼ਰੀਬ
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗਰੀਬ
1,579 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Garib in Indian usage
12,044 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 211 records (1.8%).
- Recorded as male: 11,833 records (98.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 721 |
| 1940s | 1,747 |
| 1950s | 2,305 |
| 1960s | 2,614 |
| 1970s | 2,247 |
| 1980s | 1,509 |
| 1990s | 731 |
| Other decades | 170 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,984 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,970 |
| Punjab | 1,717 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 771 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 421 |
| Haryana | 412 |
| Jharkhand | 354 |
| Rajasthan | 215 |
| Other states | 200 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001