MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Paru mean?
Paru is a familiar short form of Parvati in Malayalam naming. Parvati is the mountain goddess and Shiva's consort, so the shortened name preserves a clear devotional referent.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पारू
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
പാറു
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पारु
Letter-by-letter: pāru
2,097 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Paru in Indian usage
9,439 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (94.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,891 records (94.2%).
- Recorded as male: 548 records (5.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,545 |
| 1940s | 2,064 |
| 1950s | 2,074 |
| 1960s | 1,188 |
| 1970s | 912 |
| 1980s | 713 |
| 1990s | 619 |
| Other decades | 324 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 6,029 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,673 |
| Rajasthan | 820 |
| Jharkhand | 293 |
| Odisha | 190 |
| Karnataka | 130 |
| Other states | 304 |
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