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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Bishu

Vishnu; familiar form of Vishwanath

Bishu means “Vishnu; familiar form of Vishwanath”.

Origin language
Bengali / Sanskrit
First letter
B
Historical records
6,030

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Bishu mean?

Bishu is a Bengali familiar name used for longer forms such as Bishnu and Bishwanath. These lead respectively to Vishnu and to Shiva as lord of the universe, so the short name can carry either divine expansion.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Bengali

বিশু

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

बिशु

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Bishu in Indian usage

6,030 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (90.4%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 579 records (9.6%).
  • Recorded as male: 5,451 records (90.4%).

By birth decade

Bishu: records by birth decade1940s: 2461940s1950s: 6081950s1960s: 1,0741960s1970s: 1,2581970s1980s: 1,5691980s1990s: 1,1581990sOther decades: 117Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s246
1950s608
1960s1,074
1970s1,258
1980s1,569
1990s1,158
Other decades117

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Tripura2,216
Jharkhand1,351
Assam927
Odisha815
Bihar380
Other states341
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

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