MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Tarakeshwar mean?
Tarakeshwar is a devotional name of Shiva familiar from the Bengal shrine tradition. Sanskrit tārakeśvara also denotes the moon as lord of the stars, a distinct whole-word sense.
Pronunciation
IAST: tārakeśvara
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
तारकेश्वर
Letter-by-letter: tārakeśvara
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Tarakeshwar in Indian usage
21,085 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 184 records (0.9%).
- Recorded as male: 20,901 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 919 |
| 1950s | 1,995 |
| 1960s | 4,144 |
| 1970s | 6,018 |
| 1980s | 5,291 |
| 1990s | 2,388 |
| Other decades | 330 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 12,809 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,579 |
| Jharkhand | 2,052 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 293 |
| Haryana | 131 |
| Other states | 221 |
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, tārakeśvara, p. 444,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, tārakārāja, p. 444,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.