MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sukhpal mean?
Punjabi sukh concerns happiness, comfort and well-being. Pāl describes protection or guardianship, giving the compound a protective ending.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुखपाल
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੁਖਪਾਲ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sukhpal in Indian usage
51,702 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: 18,867 records (36.5%).
- Recorded as male: 32,835 records (63.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,689 |
| 1950s | 4,370 |
| 1960s | 9,782 |
| 1970s | 13,465 |
| 1980s | 15,133 |
| 1990s | 6,728 |
| Other decades | 535 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 29,045 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,730 |
| Rajasthan | 4,406 |
| Haryana | 3,589 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,062 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 723 |
| Other states | 147 |
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
- Wiktionary: ਸੁਖ ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, pāla, p. 622,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.