MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhanu mean?
Bhānu describes light or a beam and also names the sun. Its brightness element reappears in Bhanumati and Bhanupratap.
Pronunciation
IAST: bhānu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भानु
Letter-by-letter: bhānu
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਭਾਨੁ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhanu in Indian usage
46,629 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 16,780 records (36%).
- Recorded as male: 29,849 records (64%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 715 |
| 1940s | 1,963 |
| 1950s | 4,203 |
| 1960s | 7,116 |
| 1970s | 9,130 |
| 1980s | 11,948 |
| 1990s | 11,341 |
| Other decades | 213 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 16,739 |
| Odisha | 6,303 |
| Assam | 4,764 |
| Bihar | 4,591 |
| Jharkhand | 4,387 |
| Rajasthan | 2,636 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,508 |
| Tripura | 1,437 |
| Haryana | 1,326 |
| Uttarakhand | 749 |
| Punjab | 456 |
| Gujarat | 164 |
| Maharashtra | 161 |
| Chandigarh | 137 |
| Karnataka | 126 |
| Other states | 145 |
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, bhānu, p. 751,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.