MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Parag mean?
Parag is the Sanskrit noun for the fine pollen of a flower. Its broader literary senses include dust and fragrant powder, all connected by the image of fine particles.
Pronunciation
IAST: parāga
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पराग
Letter-by-letter: parāga
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Parag in Indian usage
6,300 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 363 records (5.8%).
- Recorded as male: 5,937 records (94.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 449 |
| 1950s | 604 |
| 1960s | 752 |
| 1970s | 1,142 |
| 1980s | 1,610 |
| 1990s | 1,516 |
| Other decades | 227 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,333 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,410 |
| Rajasthan | 549 |
| Haryana | 274 |
| Maharashtra | 160 |
| Uttarakhand | 133 |
| Punjab | 121 |
| Bihar | 115 |
| Other states | 205 |
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, parāga, p. 589,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.