MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Maheshachandra mean?
Mahesh is a Sanskrit title of Shiva meaning “great lord”. Maheshachandra joins that deity-name to the moon, recalling the crescent in Shiva's hair.
Pronunciation
IAST: maheśacandra
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महेशचन्द्र
Letter-by-letter: maheśacandra
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Maheshachandra in Indian usage
12,506 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 661 |
| 1950s | 2,017 |
| 1960s | 3,760 |
| 1970s | 3,377 |
| 1980s | 1,922 |
| 1990s | 615 |
| Other decades | 154 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 9,057 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,813 |
| Rajasthan | 1,295 |
| Uttarakhand | 141 |
| Other states | 200 |
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, maheśa, p. 802,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, candra, p. 386,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.