MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhairu mean?
Bhairu is an affectionate regional form of Bhairav or Bhairava. Bhairava is a powerful form of Shiva, and the short name is familiar in local deity worship in northern and western India.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भैरू
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhairu in Indian usage
27,172 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 267 records (1%).
- Recorded as male: 26,905 records (99%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,047 |
| 1940s | 2,746 |
| 1950s | 4,645 |
| 1960s | 5,705 |
| 1970s | 4,505 |
| 1980s | 4,644 |
| 1990s | 3,628 |
| Other decades | 252 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 20,220 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,845 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,753 |
| Jharkhand | 1,588 |
| Bihar | 844 |
| Karnataka | 696 |
| Other states | 226 |
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, bhairava, p. 767,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.