MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandrabhushan mean?
Chandra is the moon and bhushana an ornament. Chandrabhushan names Shiva through the crescent moon worn in his hair. The crescent is one of the identifying attributes of Shiva in temple sculpture.
Pronunciation
IAST: candrabhūṣaṇa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चन्द्रभूषण
Letter-by-letter: candrabhūṣaṇa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandrabhushan in Indian usage
3,714 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 |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 401 |
| 1960s | 792 |
| 1970s | 992 |
| 1980s | 1,023 |
| 1990s | 312 |
| Other decades | 194 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,529 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 880 |
| Jharkhand | 177 |
| Other states | 128 |
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, candra, p. 386,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, bhūṣaṇa, p. 764,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śiva, p. 1074,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.