MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivkanya mean?
Shivkanya joins Shiva with kanya, a girl or daughter. The compound makes the divine relationship explicit by presenting a daughter in relation to Shiva.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवकन्या
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivkanya in Indian usage
6,259 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 |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 268 |
| 1960s | 759 |
| 1970s | 1,465 |
| 1980s | 2,178 |
| 1990s | 1,487 |
| Other decades | 102 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,765 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,130 |
| Rajasthan | 231 |
| Other states | 133 |
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, kanyā, p. 249,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.