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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Gurunath

Revered spiritual master

Gurunath means “Revered spiritual master”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Kannada
First letter
G
Historical records
3,921

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Gurunath mean?

Guru is a teacher or spiritual guide and nath is a lord or protector. Gurunath is used as a reverential address for a spiritual master in the Deccan and elsewhere. The title nath is also used for spiritual adepts in the Nath tradition.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

गुरुनाथ

Conventional spelling

Kannada

ಗುರುನಾಥ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Gurunath in Indian usage

3,921 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Gurunath: records by birth decade1950s: 3211950s1960s: 5991960s1970s: 8891970s1980s: 1,1751980s1990s: 7281990sOther decades: 209Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s321
1960s599
1970s889
1980s1,175
1990s728
Other decades209

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Karnataka3,921
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. Monier-Williams, guru, p. 359,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, nātha, p. 534,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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