MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chatur mean?
The Sanskrit adjective catura describes skill and ingenuity. Chatur retains this meaning in Hindi, where it is both an ordinary descriptive word and an established personal name.
Pronunciation
IAST: catura
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चतुर
Letter-by-letter: catura
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chatur in Indian usage
13,009 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: 3,427 records (26.3%).
- Recorded as male: 9,582 records (73.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 975 |
| 1950s | 1,500 |
| 1960s | 2,450 |
| 1970s | 3,036 |
| 1980s | 2,882 |
| 1990s | 1,723 |
| Other decades | 443 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 4,910 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,728 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,269 |
| Jharkhand | 1,362 |
| Uttarakhand | 653 |
| Bihar | 471 |
| Rajasthan | 346 |
| Other states | 270 |
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, catura, p. 386,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: चतुर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.