MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mehabub mean?
Mehabub is a vernacular form of Mahbub, the Arabic passive participle for someone loved. Through Urdu, the word became familiar in love poetry as a term for the beloved.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महबूब
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मेहबूब
4,809 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mehabub in Indian usage
7,233 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 545 records (7.5%).
- Recorded as male: 6,688 records (92.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 227 |
| 1950s | 577 |
| 1960s | 1,371 |
| 1970s | 1,902 |
| 1980s | 1,969 |
| 1990s | 1,083 |
| Other decades | 104 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 2,302 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,229 |
| Kerala | 863 |
| Maharashtra | 514 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 398 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 331 |
| Goa | 132 |
| Jharkhand | 130 |
| Uttarakhand | 110 |
| Other states | 224 |
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