MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanu mean?
Kanu is an affectionate regional name for Krishna, especially familiar in eastern devotional song. Krishna's childhood in Braj gives the diminutive its pastoral and loving cultural setting.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कानु
Conventional spelling
Bengali
কানু
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कनु
Letter-by-letter: kanu
739 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanu in Indian usage
7,611 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: 2,291 records (30.1%).
- Recorded as male: 5,320 records (69.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 333 |
| 1950s | 891 |
| 1960s | 1,433 |
| 1970s | 1,533 |
| 1980s | 1,855 |
| 1990s | 1,355 |
| Other decades | 211 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 1,404 |
| Assam | 1,255 |
| Rajasthan | 1,230 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 979 |
| Jharkhand | 826 |
| Odisha | 766 |
| Bihar | 207 |
| Maharashtra | 168 |
| Haryana | 129 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 123 |
| Other states | 524 |
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, kṛṣṇa, p. 306,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.