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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Niru

Water; familiar short name

Niru means “Water; familiar short name”.

Origin language
Hindi / Punjabi
First letter
N
Historical records
49,080

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Niru mean?

Niru can be a familiar name based on nīr, water. It also shortens names such as Nirmala, whose full form means pure or spotless.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

नीरू

Conventional spelling

Gurmukhi

ਨੀਰੂ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Niru in Indian usage

49,080 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for girls (94.1%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 46,187 records (94.1%).
  • Recorded as male: 2,893 records (5.9%).

By birth decade

Niru: records by birth decade1940s: 2911940s1950s: 1,5471950s1960s: 5,4971960s1970s: 10,4771970s1980s: 18,4971980s1990s: 12,5861990sOther decades: 185Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s291
1950s1,547
1960s5,497
1970s10,477
1980s18,497
1990s12,586
Other decades185

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh14,023
Bihar10,832
Punjab5,840
Rajasthan5,817
Haryana5,645
Madhya Pradesh2,414
Uttarakhand2,025
Jharkhand1,726
Himachal Pradesh437
Other states321
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