MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Viri mean?
Viri is a regional personal-name formation from vir, brave or hero. Its ending turns the Sanskrit-derived word into a familiar north Indian name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
वीरी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Viri in Indian usage
4,840 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 462 records (9.5%).
- Recorded as male: 4,378 records (90.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 441 |
| 1950s | 844 |
| 1960s | 1,244 |
| 1970s | 1,011 |
| 1980s | 801 |
| 1990s | 360 |
| Other decades | 139 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,746 |
| Rajasthan | 603 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 341 |
| Other states | 150 |
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, vīra, p. 1005,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.