MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shashibhushan mean?
Shashibhushana is a Sanskrit title of Shiva that describes the moon as his ornament. Shashi, moon, joins bhushana, adornment, recalling the crescent shown in Shiva's hair.
Pronunciation
IAST: śaśibhūṣaṇa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शशिभूषण
Letter-by-letter: śaśibhūṣaṇa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shashibhushan in Indian usage
8,447 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शशिभूषण.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 145 |
| 1950s | 685 |
| 1960s | 1,519 |
| 1970s | 2,549 |
| 1980s | 2,311 |
| 1990s | 1,238 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 6,792 |
| Jharkhand | 737 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 737 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 181 |
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, śaśibhūṣaṇa, p. 1060,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.