MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pradeep mean?
Pradīpa uses the light root dīp with the prefix pra and can denote a lamp that lights a space. The pra prefix distinguishes it from the simpler dīpa, lamp.
Pronunciation
IAST: pradīpa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रदीप
Letter-by-letter: pradīpa
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Pradip
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pradeep in Indian usage
790,863 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,979 records (1%).
- Recorded as male: 782,884 records (99%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 842 |
| 1930s | 636 |
| 1940s | 2,756 |
| 1950s | 18,389 |
| 1960s | 66,654 |
| 1970s | 141,625 |
| 1980s | 300,155 |
| 1990s | 259,563 |
| Other decades | 243 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 305,975 |
| Bihar | 99,459 |
| Haryana | 72,638 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 70,391 |
| Jharkhand | 52,709 |
| Rajasthan | 44,462 |
| Kerala | 27,887 |
| Delhi | 23,914 |
| Uttarakhand | 21,964 |
| Punjab | 18,848 |
| Assam | 13,317 |
| Tripura | 11,492 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 11,022 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 8,535 |
| Goa | 2,066 |
| Chandigarh | 1,573 |
| Maharashtra | 1,074 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 653 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 552 |
| Meghalaya | 548 |
| Sikkim | 350 |
| Puducherry | 331 |
| Odisha | 300 |
| Nagaland | 234 |
| Manipur | 173 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 152 |
| Other states | 244 |
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, pradīpa, p. 680,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: प्रदीप ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.