MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sindhu mean?
Sindhu is a Sanskrit noun for a river or broad body of water. As a geographical name, it identifies the Indus river.
Pronunciation
IAST: sindhu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सिन्धु
Letter-by-letter: sindhu
Conventional spelling
Tamil
சிந்து
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सिंधु
Letter-by-letter: siṃdhu
8,723 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
सिंधू
Letter-by-letter: siṃdhū
2,229 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sindhu in Indian usage
98,531 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (95.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 94,111 records (95.5%).
- Recorded as male: 4,420 records (4.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 251 |
| 1940s | 765 |
| 1950s | 1,591 |
| 1960s | 5,848 |
| 1970s | 47,143 |
| 1980s | 30,823 |
| 1990s | 12,007 |
| Other decades | 103 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 62,573 |
| Bihar | 17,402 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,933 |
| Jharkhand | 3,650 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,540 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,477 |
| Odisha | 1,673 |
| Maharashtra | 616 |
| Delhi | 455 |
| Karnataka | 389 |
| Rajasthan | 278 |
| Puducherry | 237 |
| Tripura | 236 |
| Haryana | 206 |
| Goa | 192 |
| Gujarat | 170 |
| Assam | 169 |
| Uttarakhand | 122 |
| Other states | 213 |
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, sindhu, p. 1217,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.