The baby name Shashanka is a Boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced shuh-SHAHNG-kuh.
Shashanka is Sanskrit in Origin.
The baby name Shashanka is a boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced shuh-SHAHNG-kuh.
Shashanka is Sanskrit in Origin.
The earliest known form of Shashanka is Sanskrit śaśāṅka, written शशाङ्क. It is a compound of śaśa, hare, and aṅka, mark, spot, or emblem; lengthening in the compound gives the sense hare-marked. In Sanskrit poetry this is a standard epithet of the moon, whose visible markings were imagined as a hare, so the name’s literal force is the hare-marked one, hence moon or moon-crested.
The name belongs to the Sanskritic naming stock of India, especially in Hindu contexts, where lunar epithets also attach to Shiva as bearer of the crescent. A notable historical bearer was Shashanka, the seventh-century ruler of Gauda in Bengal, known from early medieval sources such as Bana’s Harshacharita. Modern use is chiefly masculine, with Shashank common in North Indian spelling and Sasanka or Śaśāṅka appearing in transliteration and regional usage.
| Shashanka Shashanka Dev, also known as Śaśāṅka, is most famous for being the first independent king to unify the Bengal region under the Gauda Kingdom. He ruled in the 7th century, with historians generally placing his reign sometime between about 590 and 637 CE. |
Based on birth registration data from national statistics agencies.
| Country | Gender | Year | Rank | Born | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QA | 0 | #106 | 1 | 7,011 | |
| AE | 0 | #187 | 1 | 10,220 | |
| BD | Boys | 0 | #559 | 18 | 10,045 |
| AE | Girls | 0 | #597 | 1 | 20,968 |
| IN | Girls | 0 | #654 | 1 | 13,121 |
| SG | Boys | 0 | #739 | 1 | 17,960 |
| QA | Boys | 0 | #740 | 4 | 18,093 |
| KW | Boys | 0 | #806 | 1 | 18,755 |
| OM | Boys | 0 | #916 | 3 | 17,948 |
| IN | Boys | 0 | #974 | 28 | 16,750 |
| AE | Boys | 0 | #1,142 | 2 | 22,615 |
| SA | Boys | 0 | #1,689 | 3 | 28,008 |
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