MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ind mean?
Ind can shorten Indu, the Sanskrit moon name, or Indira. Indira names Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity, so these familiar feminine expansions give different lunar and devotional senses.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
इन्दु
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
इन्द
Letter-by-letter: inda
7,616 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ind in Indian usage
15,563 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (93.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 14,599 records (93.8%).
- Recorded as male: 964 records (6.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 661 |
| 1960s | 1,671 |
| 1970s | 3,484 |
| 1980s | 6,354 |
| 1990s | 3,088 |
| Other decades | 305 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 10,589 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,624 |
| Uttarakhand | 928 |
| Delhi | 659 |
| Bihar | 204 |
| Rajasthan | 193 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 189 |
| Other states | 177 |
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, indu, p. 166,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, indirā, p. 165,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.