MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shashi mean?
Śaśin literally refers to bearing a hare, an image traditionally seen in the moon's markings, and Shashi is its familiar name form. Śaśa is the Sanskrit hare word within that lunar image.
Pronunciation
IAST: śaśi
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शशि
Letter-by-letter: śaśi
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ശശി
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shashi in Indian usage
253,145 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 149,407 records (59%).
- Recorded as male: 103,738 records (41%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,441 |
| 1940s | 6,733 |
| 1950s | 26,802 |
| 1960s | 47,494 |
| 1970s | 59,797 |
| 1980s | 68,424 |
| 1990s | 42,077 |
| Other decades | 377 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 70,189 |
| Bihar | 44,839 |
| Kerala | 32,033 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 24,670 |
| Delhi | 23,131 |
| Haryana | 13,798 |
| Odisha | 13,404 |
| Jharkhand | 9,650 |
| Rajasthan | 8,413 |
| Uttarakhand | 5,854 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,390 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,789 |
| Chandigarh | 1,083 |
| Puducherry | 173 |
| Goa | 162 |
| Other states | 567 |
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
- Wiktionary: शशि ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: Shashi ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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