MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivcharan mean?
Shivcharan places Shiva’s name before caraṇa, feet. Shiva is the Sanskrit deity known as the auspicious one. In devotional language, seeking a deity’s feet expresses reverence and refuge.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवचरण
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शिवचरन
Letter-by-letter: śivacarana
15,311 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivcharan in Indian usage
31,853 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शिवचरण.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 149 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 31,704 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 2,821 |
| 1950s | 4,852 |
| 1960s | 7,219 |
| 1970s | 6,882 |
| 1980s | 6,026 |
| 1990s | 3,211 |
| Other decades | 842 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 10,382 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,193 |
| Rajasthan | 6,632 |
| Jharkhand | 3,858 |
| Bihar | 2,333 |
| Uttarakhand | 240 |
| Other states | 215 |
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, caraṇa, p. 389,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.