MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shyamsundar mean?
Śyāma and sundara combine colour imagery with beauty. Shyamsundar is an established affectionate epithet of Krishna in devotional literature. In pastoral depictions, Krishna plays the flute among the cows of Braj.
Pronunciation
IAST: śyāmasundara
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
श्यामसुन्दर
Letter-by-letter: śyāmasundara
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
श्यामसुंदर
Letter-by-letter: śyāmasuṃdara
8,424 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shyamsundar in Indian usage
48,941 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,326 records (2.7%).
- Recorded as male: 47,615 records (97.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 798 |
| 1940s | 2,448 |
| 1950s | 5,256 |
| 1960s | 9,253 |
| 1970s | 11,493 |
| 1980s | 12,559 |
| 1990s | 6,975 |
| Other decades | 159 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 21,331 |
| Rajasthan | 10,356 |
| Bihar | 7,376 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,560 |
| Jharkhand | 1,713 |
| Odisha | 1,068 |
| Haryana | 210 |
| Assam | 137 |
| Other states | 190 |
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, śyāmasundara, p. 1094,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Museum of International Folk Art: Krishna playing the flute ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Krishna plays the flute before a cow; pastoral imagery and the Bhagavata narrative.
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.