MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gaurav mean?
Gaurava develops from guru, heavy or weighty, with figurative senses of importance and respect carried into modern Hindi. The Sanskrit base guru can convey heaviness as well as importance.
Pronunciation
IAST: gaurava
Meaning themes
honour
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गौरव
Letter-by-letter: gaurava
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗੌਰਵ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gaurav in Indian usage
231,222 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,278 records (0.6%).
- Recorded as male: 229,944 records (99.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 141 |
| 1950s | 189 |
| 1960s | 837 |
| 1970s | 9,982 |
| 1980s | 87,329 |
| 1990s | 132,575 |
| Other decades | 169 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 97,026 |
| Bihar | 23,300 |
| Delhi | 20,901 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 19,866 |
| Haryana | 18,851 |
| Rajasthan | 17,171 |
| Punjab | 15,433 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,887 |
| Jharkhand | 3,957 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,637 |
| Chandigarh | 1,127 |
| Goa | 412 |
| Maharashtra | 281 |
| Other states | 373 |
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, gaurava, p. 370,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.