MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shankar mean?
Well-being, śam, joins kara, maker, in the formation Śaṅkara. It is a widely used Shiva title and also appears in the combined name Umashankar.
Pronunciation
IAST: śaṅkara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शंकर
Letter-by-letter: śaṅkara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shankar in Indian usage
499,618 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,384 records (1.5%).
- Recorded as male: 492,234 records (98.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,839 |
| 1930s | 7,876 |
| 1940s | 26,768 |
| 1950s | 62,567 |
| 1960s | 106,747 |
| 1970s | 114,948 |
| 1980s | 108,828 |
| 1990s | 69,836 |
| Other decades | 209 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 148,975 |
| Rajasthan | 110,281 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 78,344 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 62,216 |
| Jharkhand | 51,456 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,866 |
| Delhi | 7,468 |
| Haryana | 7,132 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 6,381 |
| Maharashtra | 5,700 |
| Tripura | 4,948 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,850 |
| Goa | 1,644 |
| Assam | 1,500 |
| Gujarat | 602 |
| Chandigarh | 400 |
| Puducherry | 389 |
| Meghalaya | 277 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 245 |
| Odisha | 222 |
| Kerala | 203 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 166 |
| Nagaland | 127 |
| Other states | 226 |
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.
Explore related lists
Sources
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Shankar ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Wiktionary: शंकर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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