MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhaskar mean?
Bhaskar joins bhās, light, with kara, maker. The whole Sanskrit word denotes the sun. It is also recorded as a name of Shiva.
Pronunciation
IAST: bhāskara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भास्कर
Letter-by-letter: bhāskara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhaskar in Indian usage
18,856 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 305 records (1.6%).
- Recorded as male: 18,551 records (98.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 923 |
| 1960s | 2,450 |
| 1970s | 4,686 |
| 1980s | 6,163 |
| 1990s | 4,258 |
| Other decades | 376 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 17,459 |
| Delhi | 610 |
| Goa | 265 |
| Kerala | 120 |
| Other states | 402 |
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, bhāskara, p. 756,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.