MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Devu mean?
Devu is an affectionate form of Devi in Malayalam naming, where the feminine divine title is a familiar personal-name base. Northern usage can also shorten Dev names to Devu, preserving the broader divine sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देवू
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ദേവു
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
देवु
Letter-by-letter: devu
1,398 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Devu in Indian usage
7,575 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: 6,038 records (79.7%).
- Recorded as male: 1,537 records (20.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,000 |
| 1950s | 1,889 |
| 1960s | 1,920 |
| 1970s | 1,021 |
| 1980s | 737 |
| 1990s | 602 |
| Other decades | 406 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 4,805 |
| Rajasthan | 1,206 |
| Bihar | 473 |
| Jharkhand | 223 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 208 |
| Gujarat | 206 |
| Karnataka | 191 |
| Goa | 131 |
| Other states | 132 |
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, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, devī, p. 496,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.