MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shishu mean?
Shishu is a Sanskrit word for a child or the young of an animal. Poetic use extends it to young plants and the newly risen sun. The same word is also recorded as a name of Skanda, the youthful deity.
Pronunciation
IAST: śiśu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिशु
Letter-by-letter: śiśu
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shishu in Indian usage
7,744 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (82.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,327 records (17.1%).
- Recorded as male: 6,417 records (82.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 270 |
| 1950s | 642 |
| 1960s | 1,186 |
| 1970s | 1,724 |
| 1980s | 2,079 |
| 1990s | 1,698 |
| Other decades | 145 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,469 |
| Bihar | 1,252 |
| Jharkhand | 1,235 |
| Tripura | 344 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 327 |
| Haryana | 285 |
| Rajasthan | 168 |
| Assam | 144 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 137 |
| Odisha | 108 |
| Other states | 275 |
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, śiśu, p. 1076,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.