MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandeshwari mean?
Chandeshwari is a goddess title joining Chanda with ishvari, the female sovereign. The name is used for a fierce form of the goddess within Shakta worship.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चण्डेश्वरी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
चन्देश्वरी
Letter-by-letter: candeśvarī
6,305 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
चंदेश्वरी
Letter-by-letter: caṃdeśvarī
2,590 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
चंदेश्वारी
Letter-by-letter: caṃdeśvārī
481 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandeshwari in Indian usage
9,635 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 2,648 records (27.5%).
- Recorded as male: 6,987 records (72.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 256 |
| 1940s | 872 |
| 1950s | 2,313 |
| 1960s | 3,380 |
| 1970s | 1,972 |
| 1980s | 623 |
| Other decades | 219 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 9,305 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 161 |
| Other states | 169 |
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, caṇḍa, p. 383,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, īśvara, p. 171,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.