MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shair mean?
Shair can reflect Persian sher, lion, or Urdu shair, poet, which have different Arabic-script forms. The lion word is شیر, while the poet word is شاعر and belongs to the Arabic root for perceiving or knowing.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शैर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shair in Indian usage
6,355 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 864 records (13.6%).
- Recorded as male: 5,491 records (86.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 491 |
| 1960s | 745 |
| 1970s | 1,044 |
| 1980s | 1,779 |
| 1990s | 1,984 |
| Other decades | 312 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 4,440 |
| Bihar | 1,117 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 402 |
| Maharashtra | 129 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 113 |
| Other states | 154 |
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