MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivkali mean?
Shivkali combines Shiva's name with Hindi kalī, a flower bud. The final short-vowel element कली gives the name its floral image and is distinct from the goddess name काली.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवकली
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivkali in Indian usage
33,812 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 33,632 records (99.5%).
- Recorded as male: 180 records (0.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,715 |
| 1940s | 4,032 |
| 1950s | 6,062 |
| 1960s | 8,680 |
| 1970s | 6,868 |
| 1980s | 4,311 |
| 1990s | 1,799 |
| Other decades | 345 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 19,651 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 8,360 |
| Bihar | 5,584 |
| Jharkhand | 114 |
| Other states | 103 |
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.