MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Unkar mean?
Unkar is a Punjabi form of Onkar, the name of the sacred syllable Om. In the Sikh expression Ik Onkar, the word occurs in a declaration of the oneness of the divine.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ओंकार
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਓਂਕਾਰ
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਉਂਕਾਰ
5,759 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Unkar in Indian usage
8,194 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 128 records (1.6%).
- Recorded as male: 8,066 records (98.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 535 |
| 1950s | 946 |
| 1960s | 1,345 |
| 1970s | 1,443 |
| 1980s | 1,979 |
| 1990s | 1,744 |
| Other decades | 202 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 5,814 |
| Rajasthan | 1,331 |
| Other states | 1,049 |
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, oṃkāra, p. 236,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.