MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bachana mean?
Bachana can continue bachan, the vernacular form of vachana, a word or promise. Hindi also has the verb bachna, to survive or escape, so the native forms allow a second everyday sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बचना
Conventional spelling
Odia
ବଚନ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bachana in Indian usage
6,102 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: 2,950 records (48.3%).
- Recorded as male: 3,152 records (51.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 659 |
| 1940s | 1,152 |
| 1950s | 1,145 |
| 1960s | 1,015 |
| 1970s | 698 |
| 1980s | 608 |
| 1990s | 627 |
| Other decades | 198 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 2,036 |
| Haryana | 1,281 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 886 |
| Punjab | 611 |
| Uttarakhand | 447 |
| Rajasthan | 411 |
| Bihar | 138 |
| Other states | 292 |
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.