MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sivakumar mean?
Sivakumar combines Shiva with kumāra, son or youth, and in southern naming it commonly evokes the deity Skanda. Kumara also names Murugan, traditionally Shiva's son.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवकुमार
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sivakumar in Indian usage
144,061 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,193 records (0.8%).
- Recorded as male: 142,868 records (99.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 831 |
| 1940s | 3,212 |
| 1950s | 9,342 |
| 1960s | 22,808 |
| 1970s | 36,103 |
| 1980s | 44,715 |
| 1990s | 26,889 |
| Other decades | 161 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 80,700 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 26,452 |
| Bihar | 14,075 |
| Rajasthan | 5,889 |
| Kerala | 5,179 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 4,505 |
| Jharkhand | 2,846 |
| Puducherry | 2,391 |
| Uttarakhand | 801 |
| Maharashtra | 618 |
| Other states | 605 |
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
- Behind the Name: Shiva ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Kumara ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: Sivakumar ↗ (opens in a new tab)
origin
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.