MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Guru mean?
Guru combines the ideas of weightiness and venerability with teaching. In spiritual traditions the guru transmits knowledge and guides a pupil.
Pronunciation
IAST: guru
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुरु
Letter-by-letter: guru
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଗୁରୁ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गुरू
Letter-by-letter: gurū
12,588 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Guru in Indian usage
44,410 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,363 records (16.6%).
- Recorded as male: 37,047 records (83.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,403 |
| 1940s | 3,646 |
| 1950s | 5,906 |
| 1960s | 7,881 |
| 1970s | 8,122 |
| 1980s | 9,477 |
| 1990s | 7,549 |
| Other decades | 426 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 15,077 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,942 |
| Odisha | 5,537 |
| Jharkhand | 4,043 |
| Bihar | 3,279 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,376 |
| Punjab | 1,522 |
| Karnataka | 1,170 |
| Haryana | 962 |
| Rajasthan | 743 |
| Maharashtra | 717 |
| Uttarakhand | 677 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 476 |
| Gujarat | 168 |
| Goa | 144 |
| Kerala | 104 |
| Other states | 473 |
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, guru, p. 359,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.