MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gulav mean?
The north Indian name Gulav follows Gulab, the rose word borrowed from Persian. Persian gul means flower and ab means water, with gulab first denoting rosewater.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुलाब
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गुलाव
8,861 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gulav in Indian usage
10,014 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: 3,612 records (36.1%).
- Recorded as male: 6,402 records (63.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 933 |
| 1950s | 1,483 |
| 1960s | 2,311 |
| 1970s | 2,338 |
| 1980s | 1,767 |
| 1990s | 745 |
| Other decades | 437 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,459 |
| Bihar | 3,187 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,008 |
| Jharkhand | 511 |
| Rajasthan | 339 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 321 |
| Other states | 189 |
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