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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Ashkar

Fair-haired; soldiers

Ashkar means “Fair-haired; soldiers”.

Origin language
Arabic / Malayalam
First letter
A
Historical records
1,553

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Ashkar mean?

Arabic Ashqar describes a fair-haired or reddish-haired person and gives one source of Ashkar. The separate Arabic word askar means troops or soldiers and supplies another established form of the name.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Arabic

أشقر

Conventional spelling

Devanagari

अशकर

Conventional spelling

Malayalam

അഷ്കർ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Ashkar in Indian usage

1,553 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Ashkar: records by birth decade1980s: 6471980s1990s: 6901990sOther decades: 216Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1980s647
1990s690
Other decades216

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states1,553
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: أشقر ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  3. Wiktionary: عسكر ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

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