MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Suku mean?
Suku is used as a short form of Sukumar and Sukumaran. Those names derive from sukumāra, tender or delicate, while the familiar form can be used without the full name in daily life.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुकु
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Suku in Indian usage
15,800 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: 3,570 records (22.6%).
- Recorded as male: 12,230 records (77.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 412 |
| 1940s | 982 |
| 1950s | 1,844 |
| 1960s | 3,258 |
| 1970s | 3,893 |
| 1980s | 3,117 |
| 1990s | 2,048 |
| Other decades | 246 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Assam | 5,776 |
| Odisha | 3,578 |
| Kerala | 2,070 |
| Jharkhand | 1,890 |
| Maharashtra | 1,469 |
| Tripura | 389 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 230 |
| Bihar | 165 |
| Other states | 233 |
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, sukumāra, p. 1220,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.