MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gopal mean?
The compound gopāla brings together go, cow, and pāla, protector. Its use as a Krishna name reflects the deity's pastoral role in literature and devotion.
Pronunciation
IAST: gopāla
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गोपाल
Letter-by-letter: gopāla
Conventional spelling
Bengali
গোপাল
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗੋਪਾਲ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gopal in Indian usage
480,543 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 9,452 records (2%).
- Recorded as male: 471,091 records (98%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,502 |
| 1930s | 6,622 |
| 1940s | 22,839 |
| 1950s | 52,235 |
| 1960s | 94,404 |
| 1970s | 114,127 |
| 1980s | 114,872 |
| 1990s | 73,668 |
| Other decades | 274 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 107,371 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 86,747 |
| Bihar | 77,921 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 75,248 |
| Jharkhand | 34,381 |
| Uttarakhand | 19,594 |
| Delhi | 11,657 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 10,956 |
| Haryana | 10,049 |
| Assam | 9,935 |
| Maharashtra | 9,289 |
| Punjab | 8,936 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 6,799 |
| Tripura | 6,347 |
| Goa | 1,075 |
| Meghalaya | 621 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 553 |
| Chandigarh | 539 |
| Sikkim | 493 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 429 |
| Kerala | 372 |
| Manipur | 371 |
| Puducherry | 334 |
| Nagaland | 247 |
| Gujarat | 110 |
| Other states | 169 |
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
- Behind the Name: Gopala ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Gopal ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: गोपाल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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