MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shashank mean?
Shashank combines shasha, “hare”, with anka, “mark”, in a Sanskrit name of the moon. The image comes from seeing a hare in the moon's dark patches.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शशांक
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shashank in Indian usage
2,177 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 699 |
| 1990s | 1,288 |
| Other decades | 190 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Delhi | 1,877 |
| Goa | 132 |
| Other states | 168 |
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, śaśāṅka, p. 1060,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.