MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gaurishankar mean?
Gaurishankar brings together Gauri, a name of Parvati, and Shankar, a name of Shiva. The paired name invokes the divine couple and is used as a single masculine personal name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गौरीशंकर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gaurishankar in Indian usage
31,186 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling गौरीशंकर.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 174 records (0.6%).
- Recorded as male: 31,012 records (99.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 2,246 |
| 1950s | 4,268 |
| 1960s | 6,494 |
| 1970s | 7,067 |
| 1980s | 6,647 |
| 1990s | 3,710 |
| Other decades | 754 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,218 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 8,150 |
| Bihar | 7,568 |
| Rajasthan | 3,507 |
| Jharkhand | 743 |
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, śaṃkara, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, gaurī, p. 370,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.