MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shankara mean?
Sanskrit Shankara describes one who brings welfare or happiness. It is a major name of Shiva, and the Telugu form Shankara is widely used as a masculine personal name. The name also recalls Adi Shankara, the philosopher of Advaita Vedanta.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शंकर
Conventional spelling
Telugu
శంకర
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शंकरा
Letter-by-letter: śaṃkarā
2,667 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shankara in Indian usage
2,053 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 101 records (4.9%).
- Recorded as male: 1,952 records (95.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 285 |
| 1970s | 399 |
| 1980s | 714 |
| 1990s | 455 |
| Other decades | 200 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,862 |
| Other states | 191 |
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, śaṃkara, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.