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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Paratap

Glory; majesty; splendour

Paratap means “Glory; majesty; splendour”.

Origin language
Punjabi / Sanskrit
First letter
P
Historical records
4,578

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Paratap mean?

Pratāpa first denotes glowing heat and extends to splendour and royal power. Punjabi usage preserves this word as the personal name Paratap or Pratap.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

प्रताप

Conventional spelling

Gurmukhi

ਪਰਤਾਪ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Paratap in Indian usage

4,578 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 104 records (2.3%).
  • Recorded as male: 4,474 records (97.7%).

By birth decade

Paratap: records by birth decade1940s: 3451940s1950s: 5881950s1960s: 9481960s1970s: 9871970s1980s: 8791980s1990s: 6291990sOther decades: 202Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s345
1950s588
1960s948
1970s987
1980s879
1990s629
Other decades202

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Punjab2,626
Madhya Pradesh1,191
Uttar Pradesh314
Himachal Pradesh169
Rajasthan129
Other states149
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, pratāpa, p. 661,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.