MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandrashekhar mean?
Candraśekhara places the moon upon a crest or head, identifying Shiva through the crescent in his traditional iconography. Śekhara denotes a crest or crown in the Sanskrit compound.
Pronunciation
IAST: candraśekhara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चन्द्रशेखर
Letter-by-letter: candraśekhara
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
चंद्रशेखर
Letter-by-letter: caṃdraśekhara
23,122 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandrashekhar in Indian usage
107,669 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,110 records (1%).
- Recorded as male: 106,559 records (99%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,037 |
| 1940s | 3,166 |
| 1950s | 7,328 |
| 1960s | 14,715 |
| 1970s | 24,618 |
| 1980s | 33,236 |
| 1990s | 23,318 |
| Other decades | 251 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 44,907 |
| Bihar | 24,627 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 13,057 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 8,384 |
| Rajasthan | 5,390 |
| Jharkhand | 4,891 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,680 |
| Maharashtra | 1,473 |
| Odisha | 916 |
| Kerala | 330 |
| Goa | 316 |
| Haryana | 225 |
| Tripura | 175 |
| Delhi | 122 |
| Other states | 176 |
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, candramukuṭa, p. 387,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.