MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Khub mean?
Khub is a Persian word for good, fine or beautiful that entered Urdu and Hindi. The everyday approving expression becomes a short personal name without requiring an additional compound.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ख़ूब
Conventional spelling
Arabic
خوب
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
खूब
3,753 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Khub in Indian usage
5,015 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 226 records (4.5%).
- Recorded as male: 4,789 records (95.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 462 |
| 1950s | 833 |
| 1960s | 1,192 |
| 1970s | 1,110 |
| 1980s | 698 |
| 1990s | 498 |
| Other decades | 222 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,301 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,384 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 499 |
| Bihar | 272 |
| Haryana | 155 |
| Uttarakhand | 138 |
| Rajasthan | 132 |
| Other states | 134 |
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