MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shashti mean?
Shashthi is the Sanskrit feminine for "sixth" and names the sixth day of a lunar fortnight. It is also the name of Shashthi Devi, a goddess of childbirth and the protection of children, worshipped in Bihar and Jharkhand as Chhathi Maiya during the Chhath festival. In Sanskrit grammar shashthi is the sixth case, the genitive.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
षष्ठी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
षष्टी
Letter-by-letter: ṣaṣṭī
396 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shashti in Indian usage
396 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling षष्टी.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 136 records (34.3%).
- Recorded as male: 260 records (65.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 120 |
| 1980s | 142 |
| Other decades | 134 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 396 |
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, ṣaṣṭhī, p. 1110,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.