MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vikau mean?
Vikau reflects bikau, a Hindi adjective meaning available for sale. Such an unusual household name belongs to the protective naming custom in which a child's public label could suggest that the child had been given away or sold.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बिकाऊ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
विकाउ
Letter-by-letter: vikāu
3,525 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vikau in Indian usage
3,818 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 263 |
| 1950s | 489 |
| 1960s | 878 |
| 1970s | 1,117 |
| 1980s | 767 |
| 1990s | 176 |
| Other decades | 128 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 3,307 |
| Other states | 511 |
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