MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pahalavan mean?
Pahalavan comes through Persian pahlavan, a hero or champion. In Hindi and Urdu the word became especially familiar as a title for a wrestler, and that title is also used as a personal name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पहलवान
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pahalavan in Indian usage
8,539 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling पहलवान.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 870 |
| 1960s | 1,557 |
| 1970s | 2,038 |
| 1980s | 2,037 |
| 1990s | 1,464 |
| Other decades | 573 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,844 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,053 |
| Other states | 642 |
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