MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Renu mean?
Reṇu denotes fine dust or a small particle in Sanskrit. Sanskrit reṇu is grammatically masculine even though Renu is a conventional feminine personal name.
Pronunciation
IAST: reṇu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रेणु
Letter-by-letter: reṇu
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Renu in Indian usage
608,805 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 604,140 records (99.2%).
- Recorded as male: 4,665 records (0.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 802 |
| 1940s | 2,520 |
| 1950s | 13,155 |
| 1960s | 60,923 |
| 1970s | 140,269 |
| 1980s | 235,031 |
| 1990s | 155,598 |
| Other decades | 507 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 218,134 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 210,117 |
| Haryana | 40,017 |
| Rajasthan | 33,721 |
| Jharkhand | 32,102 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 21,968 |
| Punjab | 17,743 |
| Uttarakhand | 12,472 |
| Odisha | 7,097 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,788 |
| Delhi | 2,801 |
| Chandigarh | 1,868 |
| Assam | 1,679 |
| Kerala | 1,653 |
| Tripura | 1,107 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 539 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 418 |
| Meghalaya | 389 |
| Maharashtra | 238 |
| Karnataka | 166 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 161 |
| Manipur | 145 |
| Sikkim | 114 |
| Nagaland | 101 |
| Goa | 100 |
| Other states | 167 |
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, reṇu, p. 887,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: रेणु ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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