MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivanand mean?
Shivanand joins Shiva with ānanda, joy or bliss. The vowel combination produces śivānanda, a devotional compound linking happiness with Shiva.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवानन्द
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಶಿವಾನಂದ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivanand in Indian usage
29,065 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 131 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 28,934 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 798 |
| 1960s | 2,667 |
| 1970s | 6,466 |
| 1980s | 10,933 |
| 1990s | 7,974 |
| Other decades | 227 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 29,065 |
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, śiva, p. 1074,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, ānanda, p. 139,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.