MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bachan mean?
Bachan is a vernacular form of vacana, a spoken word or utterance. In Hindi and Punjabi it also denotes a promise, so the name can evoke the value attached to keeping one's word.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बचन
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਬਚਨ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bachan in Indian usage
31,067 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 10,113 records (32.6%).
- Recorded as male: 20,954 records (67.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,294 |
| 1930s | 4,357 |
| 1940s | 7,159 |
| 1950s | 6,138 |
| 1960s | 5,080 |
| 1970s | 3,360 |
| 1980s | 2,222 |
| 1990s | 1,295 |
| Other decades | 162 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 14,833 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,105 |
| Bihar | 3,781 |
| Haryana | 2,003 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,891 |
| Jharkhand | 1,263 |
| Rajasthan | 1,237 |
| Delhi | 605 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 552 |
| Assam | 309 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 171 |
| Chandigarh | 125 |
| Other states | 192 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, vacana, p. 912,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.