MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bishnu mean?
Eastern Indian usage has Bishnu for the divine name Vishnu. The divine name is central to traditions of preservation and the avatars.
Pronunciation
IAST: viṣṇu
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विष्णु
Letter-by-letter: viṣṇu
Conventional spelling
Odia
ବିଷ୍ଣୁ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বিষ্ণু
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bishnu in Indian usage
47,585 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: 12,187 records (25.6%).
- Recorded as male: 35,398 records (74.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 750 |
| 1940s | 1,673 |
| 1950s | 3,680 |
| 1960s | 16,203 |
| 1970s | 8,607 |
| 1980s | 9,415 |
| 1990s | 7,008 |
| Other decades | 249 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 33,668 |
| Jharkhand | 2,694 |
| Tripura | 2,077 |
| Bihar | 2,075 |
| Sikkim | 1,851 |
| Assam | 1,380 |
| Meghalaya | 689 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 649 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 586 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 391 |
| Manipur | 336 |
| Rajasthan | 256 |
| Haryana | 232 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 149 |
| Nagaland | 149 |
| Other states | 403 |
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, viṣṇu, p. 999,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.