MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gurudeb mean?
Gurudeb is the Odia form of Gurudeva, an honorific for a deeply revered teacher. The compound joins guru, “teacher”, with deva, “god” or “revered one”.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गुरुदेब
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଗୁରୁଦେବ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gurudeb in Indian usage
2,286 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (80.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 444 records (19.4%).
- Recorded as male: 1,842 records (80.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 289 |
| 1970s | 496 |
| 1980s | 717 |
| 1990s | 602 |
| Other decades | 182 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 2,286 |
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)
- Monier-Williams, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.