MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sadashiv mean?
Sadashiva describes what is always auspicious or benevolent through sada, always, and shiva, gracious. As a divine title it names Shiva and is especially familiar in Shaiva philosophical and devotional writing.
Pronunciation
IAST: sadāśiva
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सदाशिव
Letter-by-letter: sadāśiva
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sadashiv in Indian usage
8,332 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling सदाशिव.
Mostly recorded for boys (87.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,008 records (12.1%).
- Recorded as male: 7,324 records (87.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 675 |
| 1950s | 1,150 |
| 1960s | 1,739 |
| 1970s | 1,896 |
| 1980s | 1,818 |
| 1990s | 898 |
| Other decades | 156 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,959 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,760 |
| Other states | 2,613 |
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, sadāśiva, p. 1139,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.