Worldwide, Balashankar (Balashankar 
) is a rare principally male, but very seldom female first name. The forename Balashankar is habitual in Southern Asia, particularly India, where it is a very rare predominantly male, but very seldom female name. Much less frequently, Balashankar is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Balashankar | Norway, Canada, Malaysia, India, United States |
| balashankar kantharia Gujarati poet and translator, IN (b. 1858) |
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| balashankar mulloth researcher |
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Babu, Karthikeyan, Vattigunta, Chaudhari, Sivakumar, Chitturi, Angappan, Siliveru, Trivedi, Kuncham, Mulloth, Thevar, Ramdas, Prathi, Pathak, Ramakrishnan, Beriha, Sundar, Sharma, Mishra, Yadav, Joshi, Gujja, Dubey, Desai, Reddy, Kumar, Singh, Meher, Nair, Bose, Chaube, and Chandrasekaran