MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rupa mean?
Sanskrit rūpa is the noun for form or appearance. In personal naming its feminine form can also evoke beauty.
Pronunciation
IAST: rūpā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रूपा
Letter-by-letter: rūpā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rupa in Indian usage
208,350 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (88.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 185,168 records (88.9%).
- Recorded as male: 23,182 records (11.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,039 |
| 1940s | 6,745 |
| 1950s | 11,015 |
| 1960s | 18,279 |
| 1970s | 29,975 |
| 1980s | 67,816 |
| 1990s | 70,401 |
| Other decades | 1,080 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 51,734 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 42,327 |
| Rajasthan | 28,500 |
| Jharkhand | 17,157 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 16,631 |
| Karnataka | 14,509 |
| Odisha | 6,748 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,634 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,134 |
| Delhi | 3,591 |
| Haryana | 3,239 |
| Punjab | 3,033 |
| Tripura | 2,501 |
| Kerala | 1,616 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,344 |
| Goa | 1,050 |
| Assam | 900 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 578 |
| Sikkim | 562 |
| Meghalaya | 471 |
| Chandigarh | 293 |
| Maharashtra | 215 |
| Manipur | 130 |
| Nagaland | 128 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 115 |
| Mizoram | 106 |
| Other states | 104 |
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. 885,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: रूपा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
origin
- Behind the Name: Rupa ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Wiktionary: रूप ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.