MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bachani mean?
Bachani is built on the Hindi-Punjabi verb bachnā, “to survive or be saved”. Its feminine form belongs to older household names expressing a wish for a child's survival.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बचनी
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਬਚਨੀ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bachani in Indian usage
12,993 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 12,887 records (99.2%).
- Recorded as male: 106 records (0.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 612 |
| 1930s | 1,931 |
| 1940s | 3,329 |
| 1950s | 2,921 |
| 1960s | 2,339 |
| 1970s | 1,218 |
| 1980s | 487 |
| Other decades | 156 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 3,524 |
| Bihar | 2,383 |
| Haryana | 2,369 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,049 |
| Uttarakhand | 881 |
| Jharkhand | 753 |
| Odisha | 380 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 351 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 120 |
| Other states | 183 |
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