MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gulam mean?
Gulam comes through Urdu from Arabic ghulām, a boy, young attendant or servant. The word also begins compound names such as Ghulam Ali.
Meaning themes
service
Spellings in Indian scripts
Arabic
غلام
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गुलाम
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Ghulam
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gulam in Indian usage
95,378 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,701 records (2.8%).
- Recorded as male: 92,677 records (97.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,046 |
| 1940s | 5,666 |
| 1950s | 10,139 |
| 1960s | 14,385 |
| 1970s | 17,862 |
| 1980s | 24,303 |
| 1990s | 20,422 |
| Other decades | 555 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 39,049 |
| Bihar | 21,211 |
| Jharkhand | 10,979 |
| Rajasthan | 5,300 |
| Maharashtra | 4,480 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 4,044 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,035 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,665 |
| Assam | 1,363 |
| Punjab | 794 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 697 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 555 |
| Haryana | 332 |
| Delhi | 273 |
| Kerala | 119 |
| Karnataka | 102 |
| Other states | 380 |
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: غلام ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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