MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shashikant mean?
Śaśin is the moon and kānta expresses affection in this compound. Sanskrit uses the complete word for moonstone and a night-blooming white lotus.
Pronunciation
IAST: śaśikānta
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शशिकान्त
Letter-by-letter: śaśikānta
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शशिकांत
Letter-by-letter: śaśikāṃta
12,447 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
शशीकान्त
Letter-by-letter: śaśīkānta
7,315 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shashikant in Indian usage
40,157 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 647 records (1.6%).
- Recorded as male: 39,510 records (98.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 614 |
| 1950s | 1,629 |
| 1960s | 3,576 |
| 1970s | 7,340 |
| 1980s | 14,105 |
| 1990s | 12,728 |
| Other decades | 165 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 16,838 |
| Bihar | 13,263 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,104 |
| Jharkhand | 2,485 |
| Rajasthan | 1,818 |
| Goa | 1,055 |
| Maharashtra | 477 |
| Delhi | 366 |
| Haryana | 328 |
| Uttarakhand | 233 |
| Other states | 190 |
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, śaśikānta, p. 1060,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.