MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shahar mean?
Shahar represents Sahar, the Arabic word for the time just before sunrise. Urdu poetry uses this moment of daybreak as an image of light arriving after night.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सहर
Conventional spelling
Arabic
سحر
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शहर
5,744 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shahar in Indian usage
5,744 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शहर.
Mostly recorded for girls (94.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 5,421 records (94.4%).
- Recorded as male: 323 records (5.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 717 |
| 1970s | 1,063 |
| 1980s | 1,820 |
| 1990s | 1,741 |
| Other decades | 403 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,671 |
| Bihar | 1,881 |
| Other states | 192 |
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
- Wiktionary: سحر ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.