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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Lilu

Dear Leela; play

Lilu means “Dear Leela; play”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
L
Historical records
3,703

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Lilu mean?

Lilu is a familiar form of Leela. Sanskrit lila denotes play, and the stories of Krishna use it for divine play, especially the episodes of his childhood in Braj.

Pronunciation

IAST: līlū

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

लीलू

Letter-by-letter: līlū

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Lilu in Indian usage

3,703 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: 1,352 records (36.5%).
  • Recorded as male: 2,351 records (63.5%).

By birth decade

Lilu: records by birth decade1940s: 3391940s1950s: 6451950s1960s: 1,0011960s1970s: 8251970s1980s: 4941980s1990s: 2461990sOther decades: 153Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s339
1950s645
1960s1,001
1970s825
1980s494
1990s246
Other decades153

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Haryana1,514
Rajasthan782
Jharkhand616
Madhya Pradesh233
Bihar179
Tripura126
Other states253
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

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