Indian Names · Boy
Shankar name meaning
“maker of happiness; auspicious doer”
- Letters
- 7
- Syllables
- 2●●
- First letter
- S
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- Category
- Indian Names
- Gender
- ♂ Boy
Shankar is a boy's name from Sanskrit meaning 'maker of happiness', also an epithet of Shiva.
What does Shankar mean?
Maker of happiness; auspicious doer
In Malay: pembawa kebahagiaan; pembuat kebaikan
About the name Shankar
Shankar comes from Sanskrit śaṃkara, a compound of śam (auspiciously) and kara (doer). In Sanskrit it is an epithet of Rudra or Shiva, and the name of several authors, notably Adi Shankara.
| Gender | ♂ Boy |
|---|---|
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Syllables | Shan-kar |
| First letter | Indian Names starting with S |
| Devanagari script | शंकर |
|---|
Sources
- Wiktionary: शंकर · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Names with a related meaning
More Indian Names starting with S
- Subramaniam♂Su (good) + brahman (devout worshipper)
- Saravanan♂A name of Murugan
- Suresh♂Ruler of the gods
- Sharvin♂
- Sivakumar♂Son of Shiva (Shiva: benign, auspicious
- Supramaniam♂Su (good) + brahman (devout worshipper)
- Sachin♂Possibly from sat: existence, essence
- Sadayan♂He who has dreadlocks
- Safdar♂
- Sagara♂Sea, ocean
- Sahaj♂Natural
- Sahdev♂With the gods
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