MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shahadat mean?
Shahadat comes from Arabic shahāda, testimony or bearing witness. In Urdu it also denotes martyrdom, extending the witness sense into religious and historical language.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शहादत
Conventional spelling
Arabic
شہادت
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shahadat in Indian usage
5,304 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शहादत.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 116 records (2.2%).
- Recorded as male: 5,188 records (97.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 741 |
| 1970s | 1,129 |
| 1980s | 1,613 |
| 1990s | 1,357 |
| Other decades | 464 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,206 |
| Bihar | 870 |
| Rajasthan | 484 |
| Jharkhand | 432 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 312 |
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