MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shikhar mean?
Śikhara names the summit of a mountain and the highest part of a structure. In Indian temple architecture it also denotes the rising tower above the sanctuary.
Meaning themes
mountain
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिखर
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shikhar in Indian usage
2,653 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शिखर.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 690 |
| 1990s | 1,848 |
| Other decades | 115 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,021 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 298 |
| Uttarakhand | 102 |
| Other states | 232 |
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, śikhara, p. 1070,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: शिखर ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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