MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bechan mean?
Bechan is related to the Hindi verb becnā, to sell. Such names recall the protective custom of a symbolic sale of a child, intended in folk belief to avert harm.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बेचन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bechan in Indian usage
37,752 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 769 records (2%).
- Recorded as male: 36,983 records (98%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 979 |
| 1940s | 2,961 |
| 1950s | 5,757 |
| 1960s | 8,214 |
| 1970s | 8,358 |
| 1980s | 7,553 |
| 1990s | 3,694 |
| Other decades | 236 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 20,502 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 15,768 |
| Jharkhand | 909 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 226 |
| Other states | 347 |
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
- Crooke, Folk-Lore of Northern India, vol. II, ch. I ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical protective naming, symbolic child-sale names, and nose-piercing names. The regional applications to Bechan, Chhedi and Nathi are editorial readings, not quoted headword definitions.