MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pyar mean?
The everyday Hindi and Urdu noun pyar expresses love or affection. As a short personal name, it draws directly on the vocabulary of closeness used within families.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्यार
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pyar in Indian usage
9,892 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: 2,305 records (23.3%).
- Recorded as male: 7,587 records (76.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 440 |
| 1940s | 970 |
| 1950s | 1,598 |
| 1960s | 2,231 |
| 1970s | 2,016 |
| 1980s | 1,500 |
| 1990s | 926 |
| Other decades | 211 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,366 |
| Rajasthan | 1,406 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,267 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,071 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 632 |
| Haryana | 631 |
| Bihar | 237 |
| Jharkhand | 107 |
| Other states | 175 |
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