MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Biro mean?
Biro is a northern affectionate feminine form connected with bir or vir, brave. The root goes back to Sanskrit vira, hero, while the o ending gives the regional name its familiar shape.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बीरो
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Biro in Indian usage
4,955 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling बीरो.
Mostly recorded for girls (91.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,537 records (91.6%).
- Recorded as male: 418 records (8.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 191 |
| 1940s | 524 |
| 1950s | 1,043 |
| 1960s | 1,549 |
| 1970s | 955 |
| 1980s | 502 |
| Other decades | 191 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Haryana | 3,353 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 952 |
| Bihar | 482 |
| Rajasthan | 168 |
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, vīra, p. 1005,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.