MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shamashir mean?
Shamashir represents Persian shamshīr, a sword. The weapon-word is familiar in Urdu poetry and historical descriptions of curved blades.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शमशीर
Conventional spelling
Arabic
شمشیر
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shamashir in Indian usage
2,396 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शमशीर.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 824 records (34.4%).
- Recorded as male: 1,572 records (65.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 385 |
| 1970s | 606 |
| 1980s | 759 |
| 1990s | 467 |
| Other decades | 179 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,996 |
| Bihar | 400 |
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