MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gokal mean?
Gokal is a northern form of Gokul, the pastoral place associated with Krishna's childhood. Its Sanskrit base gokula denotes a herd of cows or a cowherd settlement.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गोकुल
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गोकल
Letter-by-letter: gokala
13,352 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gokal in Indian usage
14,921 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (87.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,832 records (12.3%).
- Recorded as male: 13,089 records (87.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 779 |
| 1940s | 1,778 |
| 1950s | 2,724 |
| 1960s | 3,453 |
| 1970s | 3,047 |
| 1980s | 2,052 |
| 1990s | 904 |
| Other decades | 184 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 7,551 |
| Rajasthan | 4,526 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 862 |
| Haryana | 770 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 474 |
| Punjab | 432 |
| Uttarakhand | 172 |
| Other states | 134 |
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, gokula, p. 364,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.