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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Bheru

Bhairava, a form of Shiva

Bheru means “Bhairava, a form of Shiva”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
B
Historical records
18,631

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Bheru mean?

Bheru is a regional familiar form of Bhairav. Bhairava is a fierce form of Shiva. The vernacular name is especially associated with local shrine traditions in western India.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

भेरू

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Bheru in Indian usage

18,631 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (99.2%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 144 records (0.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 18,487 records (99.2%).

By birth decade

Bheru: records by birth decade1930s: 4781930s1940s: 1,3251940s1950s: 2,6111950s1960s: 3,5641960s1970s: 3,2041970s1980s: 3,7661980s1990s: 3,5741990sOther decades: 109Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s478
1940s1,325
1950s2,611
1960s3,564
1970s3,204
1980s3,766
1990s3,574
Other decades109

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan11,613
Madhya Pradesh6,441
Uttar Pradesh231
Other states346
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, bhairava, p. 767,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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