MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivappa mean?
Shivappa joins Shiva's name to Kannada appa, father. This respectful southern naming form invokes Shiva while using a familiar family address as its ending.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवप्पा
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಶಿವಪ್ಪ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivappa in Indian usage
28,607 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 142 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 28,465 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 957 |
| 1940s | 2,607 |
| 1950s | 4,308 |
| 1960s | 5,779 |
| 1970s | 6,463 |
| 1980s | 5,746 |
| 1990s | 2,572 |
| Other decades | 175 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Karnataka | 27,572 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 823 |
| Other states | 212 |
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.