MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Indu mean?
Indu is a Sanskrit moon word with older drop-related senses, and it appears in compounds such as Indumati and Indulekha. The drop image belongs to the Sanskrit word's older lunar vocabulary.
Pronunciation
IAST: indu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
इन्दु
Letter-by-letter: indu
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଇନ୍ଦୁ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
इंदु
Letter-by-letter: iṃdu
68,300 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
इन्दू
Letter-by-letter: indū
47,243 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
इंदू
Letter-by-letter: iṃdū
12,226 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
ईन्दु
Letter-by-letter: īndu
2,162 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Indu in Indian usage
202,900 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 197,679 records (97.4%).
- Recorded as male: 5,221 records (2.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,043 |
| 1940s | 4,052 |
| 1950s | 13,626 |
| 1960s | 43,031 |
| 1970s | 64,659 |
| 1980s | 52,040 |
| 1990s | 24,073 |
| Other decades | 376 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 128,329 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 22,065 |
| Jharkhand | 12,101 |
| Delhi | 9,494 |
| Haryana | 7,755 |
| Kerala | 4,787 |
| Rajasthan | 4,665 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,167 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,872 |
| Odisha | 1,596 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,514 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,490 |
| Karnataka | 1,105 |
| Chandigarh | 634 |
| Assam | 284 |
| Goa | 274 |
| Maharashtra | 168 |
| Sikkim | 118 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 117 |
| Other states | 365 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.