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Jamshed

Shining Jam; the legendary king Jamshid

Jamshed means “Shining Jam; the legendary king Jamshid”.

Origin language
Persian
First letter
J
Historical records
17,722

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Jamshed mean?

Jamshed is the Persian name of the legendary king Jamshid. Its traditional analysis joins Jam with an element for shining. The king has a prominent place in Persian epic literature.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

जमशेद

Conventional spelling

Arabic

جمشید

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Jamshed in Indian usage

17,722 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling जमशेद.

Mostly recorded for boys (99%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 182 records (1%).
  • Recorded as male: 17,540 records (99%).

By birth decade

Jamshed: records by birth decade1940s: 2101940s1950s: 6711950s1960s: 1,9301960s1970s: 4,1431970s1980s: 6,6791980s1990s: 4,0891990s
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s210
1950s671
1960s1,930
1970s4,143
1980s6,679
1990s4,089

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh7,591
Bihar4,298
Haryana2,484
Rajasthan1,448
Jharkhand1,327
Other states574
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. Behind the Name: Jamshid ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  3. Wiktionary: Jamshid ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  4. Wiktionary: जमशेद ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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