MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gud mean?
The Hindi word gur denotes jaggery made by thickening sugarcane juice. Its Sanskrit predecessor guda has the same sugar sense, allowing a sweet food word to become an affectionate name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुड़
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गुड
Letter-by-letter: guḍa
2,487 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gud in Indian usage
9,891 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 745 records (7.5%).
- Recorded as male: 9,146 records (92.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 171 |
| 1960s | 572 |
| 1970s | 2,721 |
| 1980s | 4,722 |
| 1990s | 1,551 |
| Other decades | 154 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 5,874 |
| Jharkhand | 1,866 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 835 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 535 |
| Maharashtra | 341 |
| Rajasthan | 200 |
| Other states | 240 |
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, guḍa, p. 356,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.