MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivram mean?
Shivram brings together Shiva and Rama in one devotional compound. Sitaram uses a different pairing, joining Rama with the Ramayana name Sita. Rama is understood as an incarnation of Vishnu, while Shiva remains the other deity in the pair.
Pronunciation
IAST: śivarāma
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवराम
Letter-by-letter: śivarāma
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivram in Indian usage
54,201 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: 297 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 53,904 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,261 |
| 1940s | 3,896 |
| 1950s | 7,344 |
| 1960s | 11,340 |
| 1970s | 10,844 |
| 1980s | 11,845 |
| 1990s | 7,464 |
| Other decades | 207 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 25,017 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 15,776 |
| Rajasthan | 9,807 |
| Bihar | 1,306 |
| Jharkhand | 1,182 |
| Maharashtra | 449 |
| Uttarakhand | 324 |
| Other states | 340 |
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, rāmacandra, p. 877,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.