MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kapura mean?
Kapura is a vernacular personal form of kapur, camphor. Camphor is a fragrant substance burned in arati, giving the name both an aromatic and a devotional setting.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कपूरा
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कपुर
Letter-by-letter: kapura
2,693 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kapura in Indian usage
5,886 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: 3,364 records (57.2%).
- Recorded as male: 2,522 records (42.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 349 |
| 1940s | 791 |
| 1950s | 1,216 |
| 1960s | 1,468 |
| 1970s | 1,058 |
| 1980s | 629 |
| Other decades | 375 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,771 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,531 |
| Rajasthan | 1,134 |
| Haryana | 573 |
| Jharkhand | 406 |
| Bihar | 272 |
| Other states | 199 |
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, karpūra, p. 258,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.