MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dayashankar mean?
Dayā contributes compassion and Shankara identifies Shiva. The Sanskrit Shankara element itself carries the sense of bringing welfare or auspiciousness. Shiva is Parvati's consort in traditional narratives.
Pronunciation
IAST: dayāśaṅkara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दयाशंकर
Letter-by-letter: dayāśaṅkara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dayashankar in Indian usage
36,687 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 146 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 36,541 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 2,057 |
| 1950s | 4,441 |
| 1960s | 7,846 |
| 1970s | 8,761 |
| 1980s | 8,501 |
| 1990s | 4,496 |
| Other decades | 585 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 27,104 |
| Bihar | 3,947 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,929 |
| Rajasthan | 942 |
| Jharkhand | 495 |
| Uttarakhand | 122 |
| Other states | 148 |
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, dayā, p. 469,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śaṃkara, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.