MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shayar mean?
Shayar is the Urdu word for a poet, from Arabic shāʿir. It is especially associated with poets who compose ghazals and other forms of Urdu verse.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शायर
Conventional spelling
Arabic
شاعر
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shayar in Indian usage
4,142 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शायर.
Mostly recorded for girls (82.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,401 records (82.1%).
- Recorded as male: 741 records (17.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 127 |
| 1940s | 352 |
| 1950s | 647 |
| 1960s | 916 |
| 1970s | 680 |
| 1980s | 798 |
| 1990s | 622 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 3,962 |
| Other states | 180 |
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