MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tanu mean?
Tanu is a Sanskrit word for the body or person. The same form is also an adjective for something slender, fine or delicate. In modern personal naming it can serve as a familiar form of longer names beginning with Tanu.
Pronunciation
IAST: tanu
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तनु
Letter-by-letter: tanu
Conventional spelling
Odia
ତନୁ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tanu in Indian usage
16,481 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: 13,073 records (79.3%).
- Recorded as male: 3,408 records (20.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 319 |
| 1950s | 695 |
| 1960s | 1,096 |
| 1970s | 2,179 |
| 1980s | 5,039 |
| 1990s | 6,942 |
| Other decades | 211 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 4,839 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,279 |
| Bihar | 1,736 |
| Jharkhand | 1,182 |
| Rajasthan | 975 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 797 |
| Haryana | 679 |
| Punjab | 619 |
| Assam | 388 |
| Uttarakhand | 337 |
| Tripura | 241 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 116 |
| Kerala | 116 |
| Other states | 177 |
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, tanu, p. 435,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.