MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tek mean?
Punjabi ṭek is a word for support or reliance. Devotional language uses it for the refuge sought in the divine or the guru.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
टेक
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਟੇਕ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tek in Indian usage
22,455 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 281 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 22,174 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,045 |
| 1940s | 2,428 |
| 1950s | 3,577 |
| 1960s | 4,512 |
| 1970s | 4,730 |
| 1980s | 3,962 |
| 1990s | 1,829 |
| Other decades | 372 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 5,871 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 5,311 |
| Punjab | 2,927 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,662 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,588 |
| Delhi | 1,036 |
| Jharkhand | 846 |
| Sikkim | 623 |
| Rajasthan | 616 |
| Bihar | 552 |
| Assam | 463 |
| Uttarakhand | 397 |
| Manipur | 127 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 117 |
| Chandigarh | 100 |
| Other states | 219 |
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