Shashidara as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Shashidara

What is the meaning of the name Shashidara ?

The baby name Shashidara is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced {'respelling': 'SHAH-shee-DAH-rah', 'IPA': '/ˌʃaːʃiˈdɑːɾə/'}.

Shashidara is Indian, Sanskrit in Origin.

Shashidara derives from Sanskrit Shashidhara: shashi "moon" + dhara "bearer, wearer." In Hindu theology it is an epithet of Shiva, who bears the crescent moon on his matted locks, so the name signifies "moon-bearer." It carries connotations of cool radiance, calmness, and auspicious guidance, echoing the lunar symbolism in classical poetry.

The epithet appears widely in Sanskrit and vernacular devotional literature and later became a personal name, most common for boys in South India. Spelling and phonetic variants include Shashidhara, Shashidhar, Shasidhar, Sasidhar, and Sasidhara; Dravidianized forms such as Sasidharan also occur, while related moon-bearing epithets include Chandrasekhar(a). The final -a in Shashidara reflects the original Sanskrit masculine stem and is preserved in Kannada and Telugu usage. Pronounced shuh-SHEE-dha-ruh, the name today functions both as a given name and, regionally, as a family name, retaining its devotional and poetic resonance.

⚙ Shashidara is about as rare as a name gets. We hold just 5 recorded uses of it, from 3 countries.