MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bandhan mean?
Bandhan is the Sanskrit and Hindi word for a bond or tie, including a figurative relationship. It appears in Raksha Bandhan, the festival whose name refers to a protective bond.
Pronunciation
IAST: bandhana
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बंधन
Letter-by-letter: bandhana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bandhan in Indian usage
4,781 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 879 records (18.4%).
- Recorded as male: 3,902 records (81.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 517 |
| 1950s | 816 |
| 1960s | 905 |
| 1970s | 859 |
| 1980s | 706 |
| 1990s | 788 |
| Other decades | 190 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 3,889 |
| Bihar | 687 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 103 |
| Other states | 102 |
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, bandhana, p. 721,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.