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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kuldeep

lamp of the family

Kuldeep means “lamp of the family”.

Origin language
Punjabi / Hindi
First letter
K
Historical records
488,718

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kuldeep mean?

Kul denotes a family, household or lineage in northern Indian languages. Dīp is a lamp, giving the name a metaphor of light within the family.

Meaning themes

lightfamily

Spellings in Indian scripts

Gurmukhi

ਕੁਲਦੀਪ

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

कुलदीप

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

Other spellings

  • Kuldip

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kuldeep in Indian usage

488,718 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (81.2%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 91,705 records (18.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 397,013 records (81.2%).

By birth decade

Kuldeep: records by birth decade1930s: 2,3451930s1940s: 8,1161940s1950s: 22,5941950s1960s: 50,5631960s1970s: 85,6241970s1980s: 171,3091980s1990s: 147,5921990sOther decades: 575Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s2,345
1940s8,116
1950s22,594
1960s50,563
1970s85,624
1980s171,309
1990s147,592
Other decades575

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Punjab176,515
Uttar Pradesh126,892
Haryana72,960
Rajasthan35,267
Madhya Pradesh19,070
Himachal Pradesh14,991
Bihar14,297
Uttarakhand12,699
Jharkhand11,664
Chandigarh2,200
Delhi743
Assam445
Maharashtra391
Andhra Pradesh177
Andaman and Nicobar Islands104
Other states303
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, kuladīpa, p. 294,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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