MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sharada mean?
Sharada is a Sanskrit name of Saraswati, the goddess of learning and the arts. Sanskrit tradition also applies the name to Durga. Sharada additionally names the script historically used for Sanskrit and Kashmiri in the northwestern subcontinent.
Meaning themes
saraswati
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शारदा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sharada in Indian usage
28,742 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (96.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 27,759 records (96.6%).
- Recorded as male: 983 records (3.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,529 |
| 1950s | 3,203 |
| 1960s | 5,532 |
| 1970s | 7,606 |
| 1980s | 7,837 |
| 1990s | 2,662 |
| Other decades | 373 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 15,046 |
| Delhi | 8,527 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,146 |
| Kerala | 2,063 |
| Goa | 706 |
| Other states | 254 |
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, śāradā, p. 1066,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: शारदा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.