MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shilpa mean?
The root word śilpa covers practical crafts as well as fine arts. Architecture, sculpture and other skilled making belong to its broad cultural range.
Pronunciation
IAST: śilpā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिल्पा
Letter-by-letter: śilpā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shilpa in Indian usage
51,368 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 50,982 records (99.2%).
- Recorded as male: 386 records (0.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 175 |
| 1960s | 537 |
| 1970s | 3,697 |
| 1980s | 18,325 |
| 1990s | 28,533 |
| Other decades | 101 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 10,174 |
| Rajasthan | 7,163 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,839 |
| Delhi | 4,699 |
| Kerala | 4,624 |
| Bihar | 4,157 |
| Haryana | 3,653 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,679 |
| Jharkhand | 1,923 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,597 |
| Goa | 1,576 |
| Uttarakhand | 778 |
| Maharashtra | 562 |
| Chandigarh | 240 |
| Assam | 178 |
| Odisha | 108 |
| Other states | 418 |
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, śilpa, p. 1073,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: शिल्पा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
origin
- Wiktionary: शिल्प ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.