MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sanu mean?
Sanskrit sānu denotes the top or ridge of a mountain. Sanu can carry this landscape sense as a personal name and also occurs as a familiar short name.
Pronunciation
IAST: sānu
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सानु
Letter-by-letter: sānu
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सानू
Letter-by-letter: sānū
5,924 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sanu in Indian usage
12,361 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: 4,015 records (32.5%).
- Recorded as male: 8,346 records (67.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 418 |
| 1950s | 889 |
| 1960s | 1,468 |
| 1970s | 2,260 |
| 1980s | 3,658 |
| 1990s | 3,446 |
| Other decades | 222 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 4,071 |
| Kerala | 3,649 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 949 |
| Rajasthan | 922 |
| Jharkhand | 823 |
| Bihar | 582 |
| Delhi | 292 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 236 |
| Assam | 201 |
| Meghalaya | 153 |
| Nagaland | 114 |
| Other states | 369 |
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, sānu, p. 1202,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.