MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gudiya mean?
Hindi guṛiyā denotes a doll and is also used affectionately for a child. The related masculine doll word is guḍḍā, familiar in the pair guḍḍā-guṛiyā.
Pronunciation
IAST: guṛiyā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुड़िया
Letter-by-letter: guṛiyā
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गुडिया
Letter-by-letter: guḍiyā
268,563 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
गुडीया
Letter-by-letter: guḍīyā
8,985 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gudiya in Indian usage
268,563 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling गुडिया.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 266,714 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,849 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 266 |
| 1930s | 105 |
| 1940s | 421 |
| 1950s | 1,225 |
| 1960s | 7,451 |
| 1970s | 38,993 |
| 1980s | 123,310 |
| 1990s | 96,792 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 149,029 |
| Bihar | 79,116 |
| Jharkhand | 18,239 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 18,187 |
| Rajasthan | 2,311 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,123 |
| Haryana | 558 |
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