MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Karu mean?
Karu has two Sanskrit whole word senses: an artisan who makes and a poet who sings praise. Both concern skilled creation, one through craft and the other through verse.
Meaning themes
poetry
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कारू
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कारु
Letter-by-letter: kāru
9,304 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Karu in Indian usage
10,494 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 390 records (3.7%).
- Recorded as male: 10,104 records (96.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 676 |
| 1950s | 1,529 |
| 1960s | 2,551 |
| 1970s | 2,858 |
| 1980s | 1,744 |
| 1990s | 836 |
| Other decades | 300 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,421 |
| Jharkhand | 4,050 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,090 |
| Odisha | 557 |
| Maharashtra | 208 |
| Other states | 168 |
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, kāru, p. 275,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.