MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gotam mean?
Gotama is the name of an ancient Vedic sage. The traditional word analysis uses go, cattle, with the superlative ending tama, reflected in the dictionary's largest-ox sense.
Pronunciation
IAST: gotama
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गोतम
Letter-by-letter: gotama
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gotam in Indian usage
24,651 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,288 records (5.2%).
- Recorded as male: 23,363 records (94.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 375 |
| 1940s | 1,287 |
| 1950s | 2,788 |
| 1960s | 4,161 |
| 1970s | 4,725 |
| 1980s | 6,632 |
| 1990s | 4,572 |
| Other decades | 111 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 13,605 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,341 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,918 |
| Bihar | 1,895 |
| Maharashtra | 1,730 |
| Jharkhand | 1,530 |
| Haryana | 666 |
| Assam | 594 |
| Gujarat | 127 |
| Uttarakhand | 115 |
| Other states | 130 |
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, gotama, p. 364,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.