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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Premashankar

Love for Shankara; loving Shiva

Premashankar means “Love for Shankara; loving Shiva”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
P
Historical records
21,855

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Premashankar mean?

Premashankar joins prema, love, to Shankara, a name of Shiva. The deity title Śaṅkara itself carries the sense of bringing welfare or happiness.

Pronunciation

IAST: premaśaṅkara

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

प्रेमशंकर

Letter-by-letter: premaśaṅkara

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Premashankar in Indian usage

21,855 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Premashankar: records by birth decade1940s: 8571940s1950s: 2,0591950s1960s: 4,2211960s1970s: 5,1031970s1980s: 5,6721980s1990s: 3,7281990sOther decades: 215Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s857
1950s2,059
1960s4,221
1970s5,103
1980s5,672
1990s3,728
Other decades215

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh14,893
Rajasthan3,222
Madhya Pradesh2,175
Bihar1,070
Jharkhand380
Other states115
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, śaṃkara, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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