MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tapas mean?
Tapas here belongs to Sanskrit tapasa, a person who practises religious austerity. The word derives from tapas, disciplined spiritual effort, and is familiar in stories of forest sages.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तापस
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tapas in Indian usage
3,430 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling तापस.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 541 |
| 1980s | 1,141 |
| 1990s | 1,284 |
| Other decades | 464 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 2,881 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 233 |
| Bihar | 159 |
| 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, tāpasa, p. 442,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.