MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gaura mean?
Gaura is a northern devotional form of Gauri, Parvati. Parvati is Shiva’s consort in Sanskrit tradition. The underlying colour word gaura carries brightness and light-toned shades.
Pronunciation
IAST: gaurā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गौरा
Letter-by-letter: gaurā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gaura in Indian usage
21,931 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (90.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 19,772 records (90.2%).
- Recorded as male: 2,159 records (9.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 804 |
| 1940s | 1,801 |
| 1950s | 2,407 |
| 1960s | 3,726 |
| 1970s | 4,353 |
| 1980s | 4,854 |
| 1990s | 3,778 |
| Other decades | 208 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 8,845 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,928 |
| Rajasthan | 2,279 |
| Punjab | 1,298 |
| Jharkhand | 1,084 |
| Bihar | 795 |
| Odisha | 716 |
| Uttarakhand | 455 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 196 |
| Assam | 102 |
| Other states | 233 |
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
- Monier-Williams, gaurī, p. 370,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, gaura, p. 369,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.