MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Guranam mean?
Gur refers to the spiritual guru or spiritual teacher and nām to a name. In Punjabi devotional usage, nām also carries the sense of remembering the divine.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुरनाम
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗੁਰਨਾਮ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Guranam in Indian usage
48,068 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: 11,921 records (24.8%).
- Recorded as male: 36,147 records (75.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,006 |
| 1930s | 3,928 |
| 1940s | 7,603 |
| 1950s | 8,723 |
| 1960s | 9,974 |
| 1970s | 8,836 |
| 1980s | 5,818 |
| 1990s | 2,069 |
| Other decades | 111 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 35,736 |
| Haryana | 8,163 |
| Rajasthan | 1,346 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,099 |
| Uttarakhand | 699 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 601 |
| Chandigarh | 283 |
| Other states | 141 |
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