MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shivsharan mean?
Shivsharan joins Shiva with śaraṇa, refuge or shelter. In Kannada devotional usage, sharana also denotes a devotee, giving the name a close connection with the worship of Shiva.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवशरण
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shivsharan in Indian usage
7,382 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शिवशरण.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 2,628 records (35.6%).
- Recorded as male: 4,754 records (64.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 191 |
| 1940s | 410 |
| 1950s | 802 |
| 1960s | 1,410 |
| 1970s | 1,693 |
| 1980s | 1,839 |
| 1990s | 1,037 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Maharashtra | 5,140 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,112 |
| Bihar | 642 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 488 |
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, śaraṇa, p. 1057,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śiva, p. 1074,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.