MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivdayal mean?
Shivdayal combines Shiva with dayāl, compassionate or merciful. Dayal is a vernacular adjective related to dayā, compassion, and here it forms a devotional description of Shiva.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवदयाल
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivdayal in Indian usage
17,159 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,400 |
| 1950s | 2,303 |
| 1960s | 3,630 |
| 1970s | 3,772 |
| 1980s | 3,676 |
| 1990s | 1,826 |
| Other decades | 552 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,442 |
| Rajasthan | 4,325 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,899 |
| Bihar | 2,819 |
| Jharkhand | 514 |
| Other states | 160 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.