MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sourav mean?
Bengali Sourav represents Sanskrit saurabha, the noun for perfume or fragrance. Its source surabhi describes something pleasantly scented.
Pronunciation
IAST: saurabha
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सौरभ
Letter-by-letter: saurabha
Conventional spelling
Bengali
সৌরভ
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੌਰਭ
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੌਰਵ
1,917 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sourav in Indian usage
26,593 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 214 records (0.8%).
- Recorded as male: 26,379 records (99.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 563 |
| 1980s | 6,654 |
| 1990s | 19,169 |
| Other decades | 207 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 8,343 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,043 |
| Punjab | 1,937 |
| Haryana | 1,931 |
| Jharkhand | 1,540 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,334 |
| Rajasthan | 862 |
| Delhi | 780 |
| Uttarakhand | 679 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 558 |
| Kerala | 245 |
| Chandigarh | 181 |
| Other states | 160 |
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, saurabha, p. 1255,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, surabhi, p. 1235,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.