MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Samasher mean?
Persian shamshir, written شمشیر, names a sword. Through Urdu, the weapon word became a personal name with a longstanding martial literary association.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शमशेर
Conventional spelling
Arabic
شمشیر
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
समशेर
9,725 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Samasher in Indian usage
9,725 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling समशेर.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 286 records (2.9%).
- Recorded as male: 9,439 records (97.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,172 |
| 1970s | 2,156 |
| 1980s | 3,282 |
| 1990s | 2,715 |
| Other decades | 400 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,604 |
| Haryana | 1,496 |
| Bihar | 1,281 |
| Jharkhand | 1,014 |
| Maharashtra | 487 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 427 |
| Rajasthan | 416 |
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