MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pashupati mean?
The Sanskrit compound joins pashu, an animal, with pati, a lord or protector. Pashupati is a name of Shiva that presents him as lord of living creatures.
Pronunciation
IAST: paśupati
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पशुपति
Letter-by-letter: paśupati
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pashupati in Indian usage
6,618 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling पशुपति.
Mostly recorded for boys (88.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 785 records (11.9%).
- Recorded as male: 5,833 records (88.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 174 |
| 1940s | 677 |
| 1950s | 1,182 |
| 1960s | 1,473 |
| 1970s | 1,465 |
| 1980s | 1,142 |
| 1990s | 505 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 3,771 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,563 |
| Jharkhand | 1,284 |
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, paśupati, p. 611,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.