MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pratap mean?
Pratāpa includes heat and brilliance as well as royal majesty, explaining its use in names with a radiant or regal image. The Sanskrit pra-tāpa formation includes heat or intense radiance.
Pronunciation
IAST: pratāpa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रताप
Letter-by-letter: pratāpa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਪ੍ਰਤਾਪ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pratap in Indian usage
134,870 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,132 records (1.6%).
- Recorded as male: 132,738 records (98.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,357 |
| 1940s | 9,804 |
| 1950s | 17,784 |
| 1960s | 26,338 |
| 1970s | 27,969 |
| 1980s | 30,212 |
| 1990s | 18,636 |
| Other decades | 770 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 37,979 |
| Rajasthan | 23,608 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 19,810 |
| Haryana | 11,773 |
| Uttarakhand | 10,044 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 5,923 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 5,681 |
| Bihar | 4,332 |
| Punjab | 4,172 |
| Jharkhand | 3,348 |
| Delhi | 2,917 |
| Assam | 2,247 |
| Maharashtra | 1,161 |
| Tripura | 668 |
| Goa | 395 |
| Chandigarh | 212 |
| Sikkim | 139 |
| Meghalaya | 104 |
| Other states | 357 |
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, pratāpa, p. 661,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.