MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gaus mean?
Gaus comes from Arabic ghawth, help or relief. In Sufi usage Ghaus is also an honorific for a saint believed to offer spiritual assistance.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ग़ौस
Conventional spelling
Arabic
غوث
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गौस
1,629 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gaus in Indian usage
5,769 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,090 records (18.9%).
- Recorded as male: 4,679 records (81.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 606 |
| 1960s | 981 |
| 1970s | 1,499 |
| 1980s | 1,680 |
| 1990s | 657 |
| Other decades | 346 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,174 |
| Maharashtra | 1,678 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 305 |
| Bihar | 177 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 109 |
| Goa | 106 |
| Other states | 220 |
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
- Wiktionary: غوث ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.