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Durgashankar

Durga and Shiva

Durgashankar means “Durga and Shiva”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
D
Historical records
6,486

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Durgashankar mean?

Durgashankar brings together Durga and Shankar, a name of Shiva. The compound pairs the goddess with Shiva, as devotional double names often combine two divine referents.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

दुर्गाशंकर

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Durgashankar in Indian usage

6,486 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Durgashankar: records by birth decade1940s: 2461940s1950s: 5861950s1960s: 1,0231960s1970s: 1,3281970s1980s: 1,9531980s1990s: 1,2451990sOther decades: 105Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s246
1950s586
1960s1,023
1970s1,328
1980s1,953
1990s1,245
Other decades105

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan4,018
Madhya Pradesh1,740
Uttar Pradesh598
Other states130
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, durgā, p. 487,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, śaṃkara, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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