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Vijayshankar

Victorious Shankara; victory and Shiva

Vijayshankar means “Victorious Shankara; victory and Shiva”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi
First letter
V
Historical records
11,223

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Vijayshankar mean?

Vijayshankar unites vijaya, victory, with Shankara. Shankara is Shiva's beneficent name, giving the martial first element a devotional setting.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

विजयशंकर

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Vijayshankar in Indian usage

11,223 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling विजयशंकर.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Vijayshankar: records by birth decade1950s: 1,3521950s1960s: 2,9991960s1970s: 3,1011970s1980s: 2,4481980s1990s: 8531990sOther decades: 470Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s1,352
1960s2,999
1970s3,101
1980s2,448
1990s853
Other decades470

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh9,553
Madhya Pradesh795
Bihar758
Rajasthan117
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, vijaya, p. 960,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, śaṃkara, p. 1054,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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