MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bivi mean?
Bivi continues bībī or bīvī, a respectful word for a woman that also means wife. In South Asian names the title can stand independently or follow another feminine name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बीवी
Conventional spelling
Arabic
بیوی
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bivi in Indian usage
5,525 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 275 |
| 1950s | 514 |
| 1960s | 1,080 |
| 1970s | 1,519 |
| 1980s | 1,639 |
| 1990s | 293 |
| Other decades | 205 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,839 |
| Jharkhand | 385 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 144 |
| Other states | 157 |
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