MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shahida mean?
Shahida is the feminine of Arabic shāhid, witness. The form belongs to the root for seeing and bearing testimony, which explains its sense of giving evidence.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शाहिदा
Conventional spelling
Arabic
شاهدة
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ഷാഹിദ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शहीदा
12,974 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shahida in Indian usage
13,906 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,820 |
| 1970s | 4,670 |
| 1980s | 5,207 |
| 1990s | 1,729 |
| Other decades | 480 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 9,073 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,772 |
| Delhi | 1,580 |
| Goa | 112 |
| Other states | 369 |
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: شاهد ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.