MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kripashankar mean?
Kripashankar combines kṛpā, compassion, with Shankara. Shankara is the beneficent title of Shiva, so the name brings mercy and divine auspiciousness together.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कृपाशंकर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kripashankar in Indian usage
14,449 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling कृपाशंकर.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 773 |
| 1950s | 1,777 |
| 1960s | 3,288 |
| 1970s | 3,540 |
| 1980s | 3,323 |
| 1990s | 1,510 |
| Other decades | 238 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,705 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,086 |
| Bihar | 533 |
| Rajasthan | 125 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.