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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Kameshwar

Lord of desire; a divine epithet

Kameshwar means “Lord of desire; a divine epithet”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
K
Historical records
40,359

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Kameshwar mean?

Kāma and īśvara form a name expressing lordship over desire. It is used for Shiva in worship, while the Sanskrit dictionary also records Kubera as a referent.

Pronunciation

IAST: kāmeśvara

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

कामेश्वर

Letter-by-letter: kāmeśvara

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Kameshwar in Indian usage

40,359 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling कामेश्वर.

Mostly recorded for boys (99.3%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 288 records (0.7%).
  • Recorded as male: 40,071 records (99.3%).

By birth decade

Kameshwar: records by birth decade1920s: 1961920s1930s: 1,1131930s1940s: 3,7331940s1950s: 7,9741950s1960s: 10,8701960s1970s: 9,1131970s1980s: 4,7311980s1990s: 2,6291990s
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1920s196
1930s1,113
1940s3,733
1950s7,974
1960s10,870
1970s9,113
1980s4,731
1990s2,629

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar27,191
Jharkhand8,594
Uttar Pradesh4,469
Other states105
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, kāmeśvara, p. 273,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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