MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Minu mean?
Minu is used as a familiar form of Meena. Sanskrit mīna means fish, but the independent call name मीनू does not require that expansion.
Pronunciation
IAST: mīnū
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मीनू
Letter-by-letter: mīnū
Conventional spelling
Odia
ମିନୁ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मीनु
Letter-by-letter: mīnu
16,250 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
मिनु
Letter-by-letter: minu
3,327 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
मिनू
Letter-by-letter: minū
2,406 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Minu in Indian usage
110,629 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (96.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 107,212 records (96.9%).
- Recorded as male: 3,417 records (3.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 104 |
| 1940s | 410 |
| 1950s | 1,516 |
| 1960s | 6,860 |
| 1970s | 22,739 |
| 1980s | 44,446 |
| 1990s | 34,452 |
| Other decades | 102 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 22,097 |
| Haryana | 18,044 |
| Bihar | 14,029 |
| Punjab | 11,120 |
| Rajasthan | 10,643 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,805 |
| Kerala | 6,778 |
| Jharkhand | 5,441 |
| Assam | 4,727 |
| Delhi | 2,591 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,408 |
| Odisha | 1,980 |
| Tripura | 1,076 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 841 |
| Chandigarh | 792 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 479 |
| Meghalaya | 362 |
| Other states | 416 |
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, mīna, p. 818,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.