MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivdhari mean?
Shivdhari combines Shiva with dhari, one who bears or wears. In devotional usage it can express carrying an emblem of Shiva or maintaining devotion to the deity.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवधारी
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivdhari in Indian usage
4,732 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 276 records (5.8%).
- Recorded as male: 4,456 records (94.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 328 |
| 1940s | 739 |
| 1950s | 952 |
| 1960s | 1,035 |
| 1970s | 811 |
| 1980s | 546 |
| Other decades | 321 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,178 |
| Bihar | 1,734 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 601 |
| Other states | 219 |
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, dhārin, p. 515,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.