MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shishir mean?
Shishira is the Sanskrit word for coolness and the cold season. In the traditional six-season calendar it follows Hemanta and includes Magha and Phalguna, giving the name a precise seasonal setting.
Pronunciation
IAST: śiśira
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिशिर
Letter-by-letter: śiśira
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shishir in Indian usage
7,570 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शिशिर.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 308 records (4.1%).
- Recorded as male: 7,262 records (95.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,030 |
| 1970s | 1,714 |
| 1980s | 2,938 |
| 1990s | 1,589 |
| Other decades | 299 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,110 |
| Jharkhand | 2,140 |
| Bihar | 1,556 |
| Other states | 764 |
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, śiśira, p. 1076,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.