MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shriram mean?
Shriram places the auspicious honorific śrī before Rama. The Rama reference is to the Ramayana prince associated with Ayodhya and Sita. Sita is Rama's wife in the epic, and their paired names also form Sitaram.
Pronunciation
IAST: śrīrāma
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
श्रीराम
Letter-by-letter: śrīrāma
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shriram in Indian usage
141,646 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,271 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 138,375 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 4,619 |
| 1940s | 13,908 |
| 1950s | 23,513 |
| 1960s | 31,023 |
| 1970s | 27,167 |
| 1980s | 24,675 |
| 1990s | 15,930 |
| Other decades | 811 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 68,788 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 29,977 |
| Rajasthan | 18,890 |
| Bihar | 13,836 |
| Maharashtra | 4,745 |
| Jharkhand | 2,446 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,570 |
| Haryana | 665 |
| Uttarakhand | 485 |
| Other states | 244 |
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, śrīrāma, p. 1100,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.