MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bhavan mean?
Bhavana is a Sanskrit noun for a dwelling, house or palace. A second sense is coming into existence or production, so Bhavan can carry either an image of shelter or of emergence.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
भवन
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
भवान
Letter-by-letter: bhavāna
3,245 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bhavan in Indian usage
8,051 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (91.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 679 records (8.4%).
- Recorded as male: 7,372 records (91.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 652 |
| 1950s | 1,023 |
| 1960s | 1,540 |
| 1970s | 1,643 |
| 1980s | 1,734 |
| 1990s | 1,134 |
| Other decades | 325 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttarakhand | 3,334 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,583 |
| Bihar | 996 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 474 |
| Rajasthan | 430 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 310 |
| Punjab | 248 |
| Jharkhand | 189 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 167 |
| Haryana | 121 |
| Other states | 199 |
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, bhavana, p. 749,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.