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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Nilu

Blue; familiar form of Nil names

Nilu means “Blue; familiar form of Nil names”.

Origin language
Hindi
First letter
N
Historical records
62,349

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Nilu mean?

Longer names containing nīl, blue, can be shortened to Nilu. The final ū is a call-name ending.

Pronunciation

IAST: nīlū

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

नीलू

Letter-by-letter: nīlū

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Nilu in Indian usage

62,349 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (90.7%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 56,577 records (90.7%).
  • Recorded as male: 5,772 records (9.3%).

By birth decade

Nilu: records by birth decade1940s: 3081940s1950s: 1,0241950s1960s: 3,6491960s1970s: 11,2481970s1980s: 23,4501980s1990s: 22,5001990sOther decades: 170Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s308
1950s1,024
1960s3,649
1970s11,248
1980s23,450
1990s22,500
Other decades170

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar20,370
Uttar Pradesh18,745
Madhya Pradesh11,430
Rajasthan4,068
Jharkhand2,632
Odisha1,600
Haryana775
Uttarakhand744
Punjab539
Assam319
Himachal Pradesh209
Karnataka191
Tripura186
Goa147
Other states394
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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