MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gopi mean?
Gopī is a feminine cowherd word in Krishna narratives, though personal-name use can differ from its Sanskrit grammatical gender. Gopinath uses gopī in a title of Krishna as lord of the cowherd women.
Pronunciation
IAST: gopī
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गोपी
Letter-by-letter: gopī
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗੋਪੀ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gopi in Indian usage
116,072 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 11,498 records (9.9%).
- Recorded as male: 104,574 records (90.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,946 |
| 1940s | 10,646 |
| 1950s | 19,067 |
| 1960s | 20,810 |
| 1970s | 17,750 |
| 1980s | 19,317 |
| 1990s | 23,618 |
| Other decades | 918 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 27,339 |
| Rajasthan | 21,257 |
| Kerala | 19,749 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 15,072 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 8,528 |
| Bihar | 7,177 |
| Haryana | 4,524 |
| Jharkhand | 4,040 |
| Punjab | 1,863 |
| Delhi | 1,696 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 920 |
| Odisha | 737 |
| Uttarakhand | 737 |
| Assam | 734 |
| Maharashtra | 395 |
| Puducherry | 350 |
| Tripura | 211 |
| Karnataka | 178 |
| Goa | 175 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 153 |
| Other states | 237 |
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, gopī, p. 368,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.