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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Nanak

Spelling, context and usage

Nanak appears in 20,319 historical Indian voter records; Uttar Pradesh has the largest published state count (6,982; 34%); the 1960s are the largest published birth cohort (4,315); 98.5% are recorded as male. A separate spelling table records ਨਾਨਕ 4,326 times.

First letter
N
Historical records
20,319

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

नानक

Written form

Gurmukhi

ਨਾਨਕ

Written form

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Nanak in Indian usage

20,319 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (98.5%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 304 records (1.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 20,015 records (98.5%).

By birth decade

Nanak: records by birth decade1930s: 8481930s1940s: 2,1001940s1950s: 3,2461950s1960s: 4,3151960s1970s: 3,8651970s1980s: 3,7571980s1990s: 2,0031990sOther decades: 185Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s848
1940s2,100
1950s3,246
1960s4,315
1970s3,865
1980s3,757
1990s2,003
Other decades185

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh6,982
Punjab4,394
Haryana3,147
Rajasthan2,085
Himachal Pradesh2,002
Madhya Pradesh868
Uttarakhand405
Bihar138
Other states298
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.

Recorded abroad

Official births registered in 2025, for the exact spelling shown.

JurisdictionSpelling / recorded sexBirthsRank
England & WalesNanak / M35,137

ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.

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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. England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Nanak; Table_6, C6123 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Exact spelling Nanak; Table_6, C6123