MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ravishankar mean?
Ravishankar joins ravi, sun, with Shankara, an established name of Shiva. The solar first member also begins Ravindra, where it is followed by indra.
Pronunciation
IAST: raviśaṅkara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रविशंकर
Letter-by-letter: raviśaṅkara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ravishankar in Indian usage
55,960 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 245 records (0.4%).
- Recorded as male: 55,715 records (99.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 628 |
| 1950s | 1,761 |
| 1960s | 4,808 |
| 1970s | 10,475 |
| 1980s | 21,218 |
| 1990s | 16,855 |
| Other decades | 215 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 21,112 |
| Bihar | 15,785 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 12,937 |
| Rajasthan | 2,483 |
| Jharkhand | 2,123 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 937 |
| Uttarakhand | 211 |
| Maharashtra | 119 |
| Other states | 253 |
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