MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Raghu mean?
King Raghu gives his name to Rama's royal lineage. The Sanskrit poem Raghuvamsha takes that lineage as its subject.
Pronunciation
IAST: raghu
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रघु
Letter-by-letter: raghu
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Raghu in Indian usage
49,931 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 9,964 records (20%).
- Recorded as male: 39,967 records (80%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,638 |
| 1940s | 11,733 |
| 1950s | 6,725 |
| 1960s | 9,083 |
| 1970s | 8,621 |
| 1980s | 6,783 |
| 1990s | 4,914 |
| Other decades | 434 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 14,086 |
| Bihar | 11,792 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 5,863 |
| Jharkhand | 5,639 |
| Kerala | 4,241 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,159 |
| Rajasthan | 1,344 |
| Haryana | 1,176 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 925 |
| Delhi | 791 |
| Punjab | 397 |
| Maharashtra | 265 |
| Karnataka | 249 |
| Puducherry | 191 |
| Goa | 169 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 144 |
| Uttarakhand | 141 |
| Other states | 359 |
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, raghu, p. 860,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.