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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Shankari

Parvati; consort of Shankara

Shankari means “Parvati; consort of Shankara”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
S
Historical records
11,454

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Shankari mean?

Shankari is the feminine name corresponding to Shankara, Shiva. The whole word denotes Parvati as Shiva's wife and belongs to goddess naming.

Meaning themes

parvati

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

शंकरी

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Shankari in Indian usage

11,454 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling शंकरी.

Mostly recorded for girls (98%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 11,228 records (98%).
  • Recorded as male: 226 records (2%).

By birth decade

Shankari: records by birth decade1940s: 1,1961940s1950s: 1,8341950s1960s: 2,5471960s1970s: 2,1811970s1980s: 1,9821980s1990s: 1,1821990sOther decades: 532Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s1,196
1950s1,834
1960s2,547
1970s2,181
1980s1,982
1990s1,182
Other decades532

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Rajasthan5,357
Jharkhand2,831
Himachal Pradesh956
Madhya Pradesh866
Uttar Pradesh846
Uttarakhand293
Other states305
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, śaṃkarī, p. 1055,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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