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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Sibi

Shibi, the generous king

Sibi means “Shibi, the generous king”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Malayalam
First letter
S
Historical records
5,398

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Sibi mean?

Sibi recalls King Shibi, the ruler celebrated for protecting a dove in Indian narratives. The story presents him offering his own flesh to save the bird from a hawk. Versions of the tale occur in both epic and Buddhist storytelling.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Tamil

சிபி

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

सिबि

Conventional spelling

Malayalam

സിബി

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Sibi in Indian usage

5,398 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: 1,711 records (31.7%).
  • Recorded as male: 3,687 records (68.3%).

By birth decade

Sibi: records by birth decade1970s: 1,7411970s1980s: 2,0581980s1990s: 1,1101990sOther decades: 489Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s1,741
1980s2,058
1990s1,110
Other decades489

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Kerala5,200
Other states198
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. Wiktionary: சிபி ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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