MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Guracharan mean?
Guracharan combines gur, spiritual teacher, with charan, feet. The feet of the Guru are a devotional image of humility and seeking guidance in Punjabi religious poetry.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुरचरण
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗੁਰਚਰਨ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गुरचरन
Letter-by-letter: guracarana
2,616 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
गुरुचरण
Letter-by-letter: gurucaraṇa
2,565 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Guracharan in Indian usage
7,214 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling गुरचरण.
Mostly recorded for boys (89%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 797 records (11%).
- Recorded as male: 6,417 records (89%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 720 |
| 1950s | 1,328 |
| 1960s | 1,439 |
| 1970s | 1,530 |
| 1980s | 1,207 |
| 1990s | 691 |
| Other decades | 299 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 4,913 |
| Rajasthan | 1,387 |
| Jharkhand | 691 |
| Other states | 223 |
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: ਗੁਰੂ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, caraṇa, p. 389,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.