MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shanichar mean?
Shanichar is the vernacular form of Shanaishchara, the Sanskrit name for Saturn as the slow-moving planet. In eastern personal naming it also draws on the ordinary word for Saturday and the practice of weekday-based names.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शनिचर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shanichar in Indian usage
7,849 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शनिचर.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 428 records (5.5%).
- Recorded as male: 7,421 records (94.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 849 |
| 1950s | 1,552 |
| 1960s | 1,835 |
| 1970s | 1,726 |
| 1980s | 1,113 |
| 1990s | 466 |
| Other decades | 308 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 4,312 |
| Bihar | 3,537 |
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, śanaiścara, p. 1051,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.