MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nanu mean?
Nanu is used in Kerala as a familiar form of Narayanan, a name of Vishnu. In Hindi, nānū is an affectionate address for a maternal grandfather, giving the same short name a separate kinship sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नानू
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
നാണു
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
नानु
Letter-by-letter: nānu
5,224 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nanu in Indian usage
13,856 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,909 records (13.8%).
- Recorded as male: 11,947 records (86.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 749 |
| 1940s | 1,938 |
| 1950s | 3,528 |
| 1960s | 3,753 |
| 1970s | 1,743 |
| 1980s | 1,100 |
| 1990s | 879 |
| Other decades | 166 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 5,894 |
| Rajasthan | 4,570 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,017 |
| Bihar | 426 |
| Haryana | 390 |
| Odisha | 246 |
| Karnataka | 219 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 200 |
| Assam | 178 |
| Jharkhand | 176 |
| Maharashtra | 112 |
| Other states | 428 |
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, nārāyaṇa, p. 536,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.