MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shyamadev mean?
Shyamadev joins Shyam, the dark name used for Krishna, with deva, deity. Krishna's childhood in Braj gives the devotional name its familiar setting.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
श्यामदेव
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shyamadev in Indian usage
11,386 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling श्यामदेव.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 137 records (1.2%).
- Recorded as male: 11,249 records (98.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,172 |
| 1950s | 2,089 |
| 1960s | 2,667 |
| 1970s | 2,640 |
| 1980s | 1,653 |
| 1990s | 769 |
| Other decades | 396 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 5,858 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,445 |
| Jharkhand | 1,083 |
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, deva, p. 492,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, vraja, p. 1042,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.