MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sadhu mean?
Sadhu comes from a Sanskrit adjective for what is good, right, or excellent. As a noun it denotes a holy person, linking the given name with India's ascetic and devotional vocabulary.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
साधु
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸਾਧੂ
Conventional spelling
Odia
ସାଧୁ
Conventional spelling
Odia
ସାଧୂ
4,323 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sadhu in Indian usage
35,115 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (93.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,295 records (6.5%).
- Recorded as male: 32,820 records (93.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 2,761 |
| 1940s | 6,171 |
| 1950s | 7,248 |
| 1960s | 7,128 |
| 1970s | 5,589 |
| 1980s | 3,696 |
| 1990s | 1,818 |
| Other decades | 704 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,008 |
| Punjab | 10,213 |
| Odisha | 4,391 |
| Bihar | 2,255 |
| Haryana | 1,894 |
| Jharkhand | 1,559 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,346 |
| Rajasthan | 1,073 |
| Uttarakhand | 525 |
| Maharashtra | 510 |
| Other states | 341 |
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, sādhu, p. 1201,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.