MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Charu mean?
Sanskrit cāru describes what is pleasing, lovely or dear. Its grammatical use for different genders helps explain its established use as a personal name for girls and boys.
Pronunciation
IAST: cāru
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चारु
Letter-by-letter: cāru
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
चारू
Letter-by-letter: cārū
6,768 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Charu in Indian usage
13,516 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: 10,212 records (75.6%).
- Recorded as male: 3,304 records (24.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 377 |
| 1950s | 723 |
| 1960s | 1,339 |
| 1970s | 2,470 |
| 1980s | 5,035 |
| 1990s | 3,409 |
| Other decades | 163 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,304 |
| Jharkhand | 3,112 |
| Delhi | 1,889 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1,017 |
| Rajasthan | 940 |
| Uttarakhand | 834 |
| Haryana | 759 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 602 |
| Bihar | 300 |
| Punjab | 188 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 157 |
| Kerala | 110 |
| Odisha | 107 |
| Other states | 197 |
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, cāru, p. 393,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: चारु ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.