MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ramshankar mean?
The name joins Rama with Shankara, a name of Shiva. Rama is traditionally regarded as an incarnation of Vishnu, giving the pairing two divine traditions.
Pronunciation
IAST: rāmaśaṅkara
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रामशंकर
Letter-by-letter: rāmaśaṅkara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ramshankar in Indian usage
37,699 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling रामशंकर.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 133 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 37,566 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 2,934 |
| 1950s | 6,159 |
| 1960s | 8,951 |
| 1970s | 8,228 |
| 1980s | 6,957 |
| 1990s | 3,675 |
| Other decades | 795 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 27,167 |
| Bihar | 5,170 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,957 |
| Rajasthan | 289 |
| Jharkhand | 116 |
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, rāmaśaṃkara, p. 878,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, rāmacandra, p. 877,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śaṃkara, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.