MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Barun mean?
Barun continues the name Varuna in regional use. Varuna is a Vedic deity who later became especially connected with waters and the ocean.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बरुण
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बरूण
Letter-by-letter: barūṇa
4,539 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Barun in Indian usage
5,849 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 169 records (2.9%).
- Recorded as male: 5,680 records (97.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 538 |
| 1970s | 1,031 |
| 1980s | 1,851 |
| 1990s | 2,097 |
| Other decades | 332 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,237 |
| Jharkhand | 1,693 |
| Tripura | 762 |
| Assam | 203 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 197 |
| Maharashtra | 124 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 103 |
| Other states | 530 |
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, varuṇa, p. 921,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.