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Shilu

Dear Sheela; good conduct

Shilu means “Dear Sheela; good conduct”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
S
Historical records
3,672

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Shilu mean?

Shilu is an affectionate short form of Sheela. The longer name comes from Sanskrit shila, conduct or character, a term also important in ethical and religious writing.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

शीलू

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Shilu in Indian usage

3,672 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling शीलू.

Mostly recorded for girls (85.8%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 3,151 records (85.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 521 records (14.2%).

By birth decade

Shilu: records by birth decade1970s: 1991970s1980s: 1,4511980s1990s: 2,0221990s
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s199
1980s1,451
1990s2,022

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Madhya Pradesh1,574
Uttar Pradesh1,001
Bihar519
Rajasthan400
Haryana178
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

  2. Monier-Williams, śīla, p. 1079,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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