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Gurdeep

lamp of the guru

Gurdeep means “lamp of the guru”.

Origin language
Punjabi
First letter
G
Historical records
110,251

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Gurdeep mean?

Gurdeep combines gur, guru or spiritual teacher, and dīp, lamp, using light as a metaphor connected with instruction. The teacher element gur is shared with Gurpreet.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Gurmukhi

ਗੁਰਦੀਪ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

गुरदीप

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

Other spellings

  • Gurdip

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Gurdeep in Indian usage

110,251 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: 33,569 records (30.4%).
  • Recorded as male: 76,682 records (69.6%).

By birth decade

Gurdeep: records by birth decade1930s: 3,1671930s1940s: 7,9111940s1950s: 11,6191950s1960s: 16,3181960s1970s: 20,2061970s1980s: 30,2321980s1990s: 19,9661990sOther decades: 832Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s3,167
1940s7,911
1950s11,619
1960s16,318
1970s20,206
1980s30,232
1990s19,966
Other decades832

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Punjab87,727
Haryana11,095
Rajasthan3,651
Uttar Pradesh2,759
Delhi1,739
Uttarakhand1,299
Chandigarh726
Himachal Pradesh510
Madhya Pradesh340
Other states405
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: ਗੁਰੂ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: ਦੀਪ ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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