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Shatrughna

Destroyer of enemies; Rama's brother Shatrughna

Shatrughna means “Destroyer of enemies; Rama's brother Shatrughna”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
S
Historical records
16,698

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Shatrughna mean?

Shatrughna combines śatru, enemy, with ghna, destroying. In the Ramayana he is a brother of Rama. He is Sumitra's son and Lakshmana's twin brother.

Pronunciation

IAST: śatrughna

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

शत्रुघ्न

Letter-by-letter: śatrughna

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Shatrughna in Indian usage

16,698 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Shatrughna: records by birth decade1940s: 7181940s1950s: 1,9231950s1960s: 3,5481960s1970s: 4,7941970s1980s: 3,8061980s1990s: 1,6991990sOther decades: 210Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s718
1950s1,923
1960s3,548
1970s4,794
1980s3,806
1990s1,699
Other decades210

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar13,045
Uttar Pradesh2,729
Jharkhand687
Haryana105
Other states132
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, śatrughna, p. 1051,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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