MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Prabh mean?
Prabh is the Punjabi short form of prabhu, Lord. The divine address is common in devotional poetry and also functions as a name element in Punjabi compounds.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रभ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Prabh in Indian usage
8,476 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 4,411 records (52%).
- Recorded as male: 4,065 records (48%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 433 |
| 1940s | 875 |
| 1950s | 1,197 |
| 1960s | 1,573 |
| 1970s | 1,835 |
| 1980s | 1,648 |
| 1990s | 794 |
| Other decades | 121 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 6,010 |
| Punjab | 937 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 470 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 367 |
| Haryana | 199 |
| Delhi | 126 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 113 |
| Other states | 254 |
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, prabhu, p. 684,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.