MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Guradayal mean?
Guradayal combines gur, spiritual teacher, with dayal, compassionate. In Punjabi devotional naming the compound can praise the Guru's compassion or express the child's place within that mercy.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुरदयाल
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗੁਰਦਿਆਲ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Guradayal in Indian usage
4,664 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 365 records (7.8%).
- Recorded as male: 4,299 records (92.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 422 |
| 1940s | 705 |
| 1950s | 945 |
| 1960s | 919 |
| 1970s | 716 |
| 1980s | 537 |
| 1990s | 255 |
| Other decades | 165 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 2,296 |
| Rajasthan | 1,061 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 501 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 200 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 171 |
| Jharkhand | 141 |
| Uttarakhand | 139 |
| Other states | 155 |
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