MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sonapati mean?
Sonapati brings sona, gold, together with pati, a master or possessor element used in personal names. Pati is grammatically masculine in Sanskrit, although Sonapati is also used as a feminine personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सोनापति
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sonapati in Indian usage
2,984 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (94.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,817 records (94.4%).
- Recorded as male: 167 records (5.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 314 |
| 1950s | 514 |
| 1960s | 869 |
| 1970s | 528 |
| 1980s | 399 |
| 1990s | 186 |
| Other decades | 174 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 1,916 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 911 |
| Other states | 157 |
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, pati, p. 582,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, suvarṇa, p. 1236,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.