MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shobhaa mean?
Śobhā denotes visible beauty, splendour or ornament in Sanskrit. Its Sanskrit root śubh concerns shining, beauty and auspiciousness.
Pronunciation
IAST: śobhā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शोभा
Letter-by-letter: śobhā
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಶೋಭಾ
Conventional spelling
Tamil
சோபா
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shobhaa in Indian usage
42,264 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 42,002 records (99.4%).
- Recorded as male: 262 records (0.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 1,354 |
| 1960s | 5,992 |
| 1970s | 12,806 |
| 1980s | 16,005 |
| 1990s | 5,828 |
| Other decades | 279 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 42,264 |
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
- Wiktionary: शोभा ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Monier-Williams, śobhā, p. 1092,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.