MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bandhu mean?
Bandhu is a Sanskrit word for a relative or friend. In compounds it expresses a bond of kinship or friendship, which explains its long use in personal names.
Pronunciation
IAST: bandhu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बन्धु
Letter-by-letter: bandhu
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bandhu in Indian usage
6,868 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (93.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 465 records (6.8%).
- Recorded as male: 6,403 records (93.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 357 |
| 1940s | 773 |
| 1950s | 1,180 |
| 1960s | 1,407 |
| 1970s | 1,386 |
| 1980s | 1,111 |
| 1990s | 554 |
| Other decades | 100 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 3,240 |
| Odisha | 1,575 |
| Bihar | 1,229 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 509 |
| Other states | 315 |
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, bandhu, p. 721,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.