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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Neelakandan

Blue-throated; Shiva

Neelakandan means “Blue-throated; Shiva”.

Origin language
Malayalam / Tamil / Sanskrit
First letter
N
Historical records
1,814

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Neelakandan mean?

Neelakandan is a southern form of Nilakantha, the blue-throated Shiva. The title recalls the story in which Shiva swallows the poison produced during the churning of the ocean.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

नीलकण्ठन

Conventional spelling

Malayalam

നീലകണ്ഠൻ

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Neelakandan in Indian usage

1,814 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Neelakandan: records by birth decade1930s: 2391930s1940s: 4241940s1950s: 5311950s1960s: 3621960s1970s: 1261970sOther decades: 132Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s239
1940s424
1950s531
1960s362
1970s126
Other decades132

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Other states1,814
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, nīlakaṇṭha, p. 566,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

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