MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Madhu mean?
Madhu is a honey and sweetness word in Sanskrit, and it also appears in seasonal and poetic language about spring. Madhur adds an adjectival ending expressing sweetness.
Pronunciation
IAST: madhu
Meaning themes
sweetnessnature
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मधु
Letter-by-letter: madhu
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Madhu in Indian usage
315,085 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (80.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 254,478 records (80.8%).
- Recorded as male: 60,607 records (19.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,057 |
| 1940s | 4,059 |
| 1950s | 17,330 |
| 1960s | 47,026 |
| 1970s | 73,124 |
| 1980s | 92,441 |
| 1990s | 79,622 |
| Other decades | 426 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 84,238 |
| Bihar | 55,178 |
| Rajasthan | 31,837 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 29,049 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 20,756 |
| Jharkhand | 15,301 |
| Kerala | 14,770 |
| Punjab | 14,012 |
| Haryana | 12,519 |
| Delhi | 10,892 |
| Odisha | 8,379 |
| Uttarakhand | 7,444 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 4,941 |
| Karnataka | 1,283 |
| Assam | 1,134 |
| Chandigarh | 948 |
| Tripura | 676 |
| Goa | 515 |
| Maharashtra | 374 |
| Sikkim | 196 |
| Meghalaya | 159 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 125 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 106 |
| Other states | 253 |
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, madhu, p. 779,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Madhu ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.