MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bigan mean?
Bigan is an eastern vernacular form of vighna, an obstacle or hindrance. Changes from v to b and simplification of the consonant group are familiar features in regional Indo-Aryan speech.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बिगन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bigan in Indian usage
6,737 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (85.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 977 records (14.5%).
- Recorded as male: 5,760 records (85.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 459 |
| 1950s | 844 |
| 1960s | 1,366 |
| 1970s | 1,559 |
| 1980s | 1,431 |
| 1990s | 889 |
| Other decades | 189 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,538 |
| Jharkhand | 1,901 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 163 |
| Other states | 135 |
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