MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shyama mean?
Śyāmā is the feminine dark-colour adjective and also a goddess epithet. The masculine Shyam is a familiar Krishna name.
Pronunciation
IAST: śyāmā
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
श्यामा
Letter-by-letter: śyāmā
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shyama in Indian usage
133,259 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (89.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 119,189 records (89.4%).
- Recorded as male: 14,070 records (10.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 5,029 |
| 1940s | 13,272 |
| 1950s | 21,904 |
| 1960s | 33,637 |
| 1970s | 28,143 |
| 1980s | 20,233 |
| 1990s | 9,954 |
| Other decades | 1,087 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 64,897 |
| Bihar | 26,327 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 20,165 |
| Rajasthan | 9,119 |
| Jharkhand | 2,719 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,081 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,940 |
| Delhi | 1,925 |
| Haryana | 1,890 |
| Kerala | 818 |
| Assam | 601 |
| Tripura | 192 |
| Odisha | 141 |
| Chandigarh | 133 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 131 |
| Other states | 180 |
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)
- Monier-Williams, śyāmā, p. 1094,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.