MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shyam mean?
Dark colouring is the literal sense of Sanskrit śyāma. The word became a familiar Krishna epithet, especially in devotional songs referring to his complexion.
Pronunciation
IAST: śyāma
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
श्याम
Letter-by-letter: śyāma
Conventional spelling
Bengali
শ্যাম
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
श्श्याम
Letter-by-letter: śśyāma
2,090 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shyam in Indian usage
567,483 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (83.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 94,671 records (16.7%).
- Recorded as male: 472,812 records (83.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2,189 |
| 1930s | 11,295 |
| 1940s | 35,628 |
| 1950s | 68,560 |
| 1960s | 108,266 |
| 1970s | 124,992 |
| 1980s | 130,369 |
| 1990s | 85,966 |
| Other decades | 218 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 240,689 |
| Bihar | 118,982 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 66,563 |
| Rajasthan | 39,866 |
| Haryana | 26,540 |
| Delhi | 20,991 |
| Jharkhand | 20,810 |
| Uttarakhand | 11,335 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 9,479 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,750 |
| Kerala | 3,179 |
| Assam | 1,998 |
| Chandigarh | 859 |
| Goa | 465 |
| Maharashtra | 322 |
| Tripura | 278 |
| Sikkim | 235 |
| Meghalaya | 224 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 222 |
| Manipur | 221 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 189 |
| Other states | 286 |
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, śyāma, p. 1094,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.