MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gurapal mean?
Gurpal joins gur, Guru, and pāl, guardian or protector. Punjabi devotional naming allows the compound to evoke both service to the Guru and protection received through the Guru.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुरपाल
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਗੁਰਪਾਲ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gurapal in Indian usage
15,312 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,606 records (17%).
- Recorded as male: 12,706 records (83%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 718 |
| 1950s | 1,553 |
| 1960s | 2,406 |
| 1970s | 3,212 |
| 1980s | 4,353 |
| 1990s | 2,790 |
| Other decades | 280 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 12,812 |
| Haryana | 1,342 |
| Rajasthan | 394 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 312 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 176 |
| Uttarakhand | 122 |
| Other states | 154 |
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
- Monier-Williams, pāla, p. 622,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, guru, p. 359,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.