MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jaishankar mean?
Jaishankar pairs jaya, victory, with Shankara, the beneficent one. Shankara is a name of Shiva, making the compound a devotional acclamation.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जयशंकर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jaishankar in Indian usage
15,400 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling जयशंकर.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 1,112 |
| 1960s | 2,725 |
| 1970s | 4,245 |
| 1980s | 4,588 |
| 1990s | 2,341 |
| Other decades | 389 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,281 |
| Bihar | 5,802 |
| Jharkhand | 610 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 565 |
| Rajasthan | 142 |
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)
- Wiktionary: जयशंकर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: जय ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: शंकर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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