MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shayara mean?
Shayara is the feminine counterpart of shāʿir, a poet. Urdu literary culture uses the word for a woman who composes poetry.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शायरा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shayara in Indian usage
36,058 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शायरा.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 35,791 records (99.3%).
- Recorded as male: 267 records (0.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,306 |
| 1950s | 2,858 |
| 1960s | 6,948 |
| 1970s | 9,608 |
| 1980s | 9,761 |
| 1990s | 5,133 |
| Other decades | 444 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 23,920 |
| Bihar | 4,973 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,486 |
| Rajasthan | 2,171 |
| Jharkhand | 1,165 |
| Uttarakhand | 867 |
| Haryana | 476 |
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