Shashidharan as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Shashidharan

What is the meaning of the name Shashidharan ?

The baby name Shashidharan is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced sha-shee-dha-ran (phonetic: SHAH-shee-DAH-run).

Shashidharan is Sanskrit in Origin.

Shashidharan is a South Asian masculine given name rooted in Sanskrit: shashi “moon” + dharana/dhara “bearing, holding.” It literally means “bearer of the moon,” a revered epithet of the god Shiva, who wears the crescent on his matted hair. Through Dravidian phonology and naming patterns, the -an masculine ending took hold, making Shashidharan especially recognizable in southern India.

Usage has long been tied to Shaiva devotion and temple culture, then broadened to secular naming in the 19th-20th centuries. Common variants and spellings include Shashidhar, Shashidhara, Shasidhar, Sasidhar, Sasidharan, and Shasidharan; Malayalam and Tamil often prefer Sasi- over Shashi- by orthographic convention. Related names conveying the same idea are Chandrashekar(a) and Chandramouli. Short forms such as Shashi, Sasi, or Dharan also occur, and in Kerala the name can appear as a patronymic.

⚙ Shashidharan is a rare find. There are only 21 recorded uses of it in our data, from 7 countries.