MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shailaja mean?
Shailaja is a Sanskrit name of Parvati as the daughter of the mountain Himalaya. Shaila, mountain, and ja, born, give the name its literal mountain-born sense.
Pronunciation
IAST: śailajā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शैलजा
Letter-by-letter: śailajā
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ശൈലജ
Conventional spelling
Telugu
శైలజ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shailaja in Indian usage
8,165 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 |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 442 |
| 1960s | 2,335 |
| 1970s | 3,381 |
| 1980s | 1,540 |
| Other decades | 467 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 6,712 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,055 |
| Goa | 188 |
| Other states | 210 |
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, śailajā, p. 1089,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.