MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bindu mean?
Bindu is a small-drop or point noun used in writing and geometry as well as in Sanskrit descriptions of liquids. Bindu can also describe a written dot in Indian scripts.
Pronunciation
IAST: bindu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बिन्दु
Letter-by-letter: bindu
Conventional spelling
Tamil
பிந்து
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bindu in Indian usage
121,816 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 115,828 records (95.1%).
- Recorded as male: 5,988 records (4.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 198 |
| 1940s | 692 |
| 1950s | 2,228 |
| 1960s | 9,616 |
| 1970s | 51,962 |
| 1980s | 39,221 |
| 1990s | 17,798 |
| Other decades | 101 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 49,071 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 24,195 |
| Bihar | 21,417 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,461 |
| Jharkhand | 5,338 |
| Rajasthan | 4,663 |
| Haryana | 2,829 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,315 |
| Delhi | 1,431 |
| Odisha | 1,237 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,068 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 853 |
| Assam | 548 |
| Tripura | 374 |
| Chandigarh | 179 |
| Sikkim | 174 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 113 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 103 |
| Other states | 447 |
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, bindu, p. 731,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: बिन्दु (bindu) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.