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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Gururaj

King of teachers; chief Guru

Gururaj means “King of teachers; chief Guru”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Kannada
First letter
G
Historical records
3,241

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Gururaj mean?

Gururaj is a Sanskrit compound of guru, “teacher”, and raja, “king”. In Karnataka it also serves as a devotional address for the saint Raghavendra, revered as a spiritual teacher.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Kannada

ಗುರುರಾಜ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

गुरुराज

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Gururaj in Indian usage

3,241 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Gururaj: records by birth decade1960s: 2771960s1970s: 5971970s1980s: 1,2321980s1990s: 8871990sOther decades: 248Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1960s277
1970s597
1980s1,232
1990s887
Other decades248

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states3,241
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, rājan, p. 874,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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