MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gul mean?
Gul is the Persian word for a flower, especially a rose. Urdu poetry uses it widely in garden imagery, and it forms many personal names centred on blossoms.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुल
Conventional spelling
Arabic
گل
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gul in Indian usage
13,978 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 6,764 records (48.4%).
- Recorded as male: 7,214 records (51.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 662 |
| 1950s | 1,054 |
| 1960s | 1,734 |
| 1970s | 2,401 |
| 1980s | 3,571 |
| 1990s | 4,268 |
| Other decades | 288 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,263 |
| Bihar | 4,169 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,229 |
| Jharkhand | 913 |
| Rajasthan | 632 |
| Assam | 465 |
| Uttarakhand | 365 |
| Maharashtra | 211 |
| Haryana | 184 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 160 |
| Punjab | 101 |
| Other states | 286 |
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
- Wiktionary: गुल ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.