MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Taru mean?
Taru is used in Maharashtra as a familiar form of Tara or Tarabai, names based on “star”. Sanskrit taru also means “tree”, supplying a separate botanical sense when the name uses that older word.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तारू
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
तारु
Letter-by-letter: tāru
3,446 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Taru in Indian usage
3,446 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling तारु.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 1,811 records (52.6%).
- Recorded as male: 1,635 records (47.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 394 |
| 1960s | 596 |
| 1970s | 930 |
| 1980s | 959 |
| 1990s | 261 |
| Other decades | 306 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 3,446 |
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, tārā, p. 443,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, taru, p. 439,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.