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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Sheru

Little lion; affectionate lion name

Sheru means “Little lion; affectionate lion name”.

Origin language
Persian / Hindi / Urdu
First letter
S
Historical records
6,868

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Sheru mean?

Sheru adds an affectionate ending to sher, the Persian-derived word for lion. In Hindi and Urdu it serves as a familiar personal or pet name built around that animal.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

शेरू

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Sheru in Indian usage

6,868 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling शेरू.

Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 157 records (2.3%).
  • Recorded as male: 6,711 records (97.7%).

By birth decade

Sheru: records by birth decade1950s: 1291950s1960s: 3891960s1970s: 7761970s1980s: 2,8951980s1990s: 2,6791990s
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s129
1960s389
1970s776
1980s2,895
1990s2,679

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh3,196
Madhya Pradesh2,864
Rajasthan691
Other states117
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001