MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Biru mean?
Biru is a familiar form of Bir, the northern vernacular counterpart of vira, “hero”. The final affectionate vowel is common in independent North Indian household names.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बीरू
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Biru in Indian usage
2,066 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (88.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 233 records (11.3%).
- Recorded as male: 1,833 records (88.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 120 |
| 1960s | 204 |
| 1970s | 333 |
| 1980s | 546 |
| 1990s | 748 |
| Other decades | 115 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 793 |
| Bihar | 378 |
| Karnataka | 216 |
| Odisha | 205 |
| Maharashtra | 146 |
| Other states | 328 |
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.