MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Piyush mean?
Pīyūṣa is a Sanskrit word for the nectar produced at the churning of the ocean. The same word enters poetry as an image of sweetness and life-giving nourishment.
Pronunciation
IAST: pīyūṣa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पीयूष
Letter-by-letter: pīyūṣa
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पियूष
Letter-by-letter: piyūṣa
13,065 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
पियुष
Letter-by-letter: piyuṣa
7,354 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Piyush in Indian usage
50,157 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 912 records (1.8%).
- Recorded as male: 49,245 records (98.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 112 |
| 1950s | 445 |
| 1960s | 1,559 |
| 1970s | 4,841 |
| 1980s | 18,473 |
| 1990s | 24,613 |
| Other decades | 114 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,236 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 7,213 |
| Bihar | 7,004 |
| Rajasthan | 6,127 |
| Delhi | 3,102 |
| Haryana | 1,929 |
| Jharkhand | 1,885 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,370 |
| Tripura | 766 |
| Assam | 627 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 359 |
| Kerala | 195 |
| Chandigarh | 123 |
| Other states | 221 |
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, pīyūṣa, p. 630,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.