MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ghanshyam mean?
Ghanaśyāma combines ghana, cloud, with śyāma, dark, an established poetic description of Krishna's complexion. Ghana supplies the dense rain-cloud image in the compound.
Pronunciation
IAST: ghanaśyāma
Meaning themes
krishnaclouds
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
घनश्याम
Letter-by-letter: ghanaśyāma
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ghanshyam in Indian usage
195,609 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 939 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 194,670 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,737 |
| 1940s | 6,891 |
| 1950s | 17,984 |
| 1960s | 35,917 |
| 1970s | 47,709 |
| 1980s | 52,605 |
| 1990s | 32,366 |
| Other decades | 400 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 68,211 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 49,193 |
| Rajasthan | 41,766 |
| Bihar | 15,991 |
| Jharkhand | 8,285 |
| Haryana | 3,412 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,226 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,009 |
| Assam | 1,525 |
| Delhi | 1,350 |
| Maharashtra | 310 |
| Chandigarh | 126 |
| Other states | 205 |
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, ghanaśyāma, p. 376,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: घन ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: श्याम ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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