MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gulab mean?
Gulab comes through the Persian rose and rosewater vocabulary, with gul meaning flower and āb meaning water. Persian gul, flower, and āb, water, underlie the word's history.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Gurmukhi
ਗੁਲਾਬ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गुलाब
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gulab in Indian usage
232,691 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: 88,732 records (38.1%).
- Recorded as male: 143,959 records (61.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2,376 |
| 1930s | 9,425 |
| 1940s | 22,035 |
| 1950s | 34,884 |
| 1960s | 49,030 |
| 1970s | 48,365 |
| 1980s | 42,505 |
| 1990s | 23,892 |
| Other decades | 179 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 67,351 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 57,638 |
| Rajasthan | 50,565 |
| Bihar | 24,128 |
| Haryana | 11,917 |
| Punjab | 7,277 |
| Jharkhand | 5,838 |
| Maharashtra | 2,951 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,951 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,742 |
| Chandigarh | 211 |
| Other states | 122 |
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