MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rup mean?
Form or appearance is the basic sense of Sanskrit rūpa, continued in Hindi rūp. Swarup combines the word with sva, one's own, to describe an inherent form.
Pronunciation
IAST: rūpa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रूप
Letter-by-letter: rūpa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਰੂਪ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रुप
Letter-by-letter: rupa
20,147 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Gurmukhi
ਰੁਪ
754 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rup in Indian usage
101,417 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (80.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 20,144 records (19.9%).
- Recorded as male: 81,273 records (80.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,337 |
| 1940s | 8,878 |
| 1950s | 14,956 |
| 1960s | 21,090 |
| 1970s | 20,893 |
| 1980s | 19,107 |
| 1990s | 12,346 |
| Other decades | 810 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 27,647 |
| Punjab | 16,039 |
| Rajasthan | 13,996 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 12,954 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 8,733 |
| Haryana | 7,464 |
| Bihar | 4,623 |
| Delhi | 3,128 |
| Jharkhand | 2,697 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,644 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 377 |
| Sikkim | 273 |
| Chandigarh | 266 |
| Tripura | 182 |
| Assam | 135 |
| Other states | 259 |
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, rūpa, p. 886,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.