MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bijan mean?
Bijan is the Bengali form of Sanskrit vijana, describing a place free of people. The word is familiar in Bengali poetry for quiet, secluded spaces and also functions as a male personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Bengali
বিজন
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
बिजन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bijan in Indian usage
3,301 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (82.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 591 records (17.9%).
- Recorded as male: 2,710 records (82.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 358 |
| 1960s | 641 |
| 1970s | 804 |
| 1980s | 751 |
| 1990s | 527 |
| Other decades | 220 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 1,009 |
| Assam | 911 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 260 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 199 |
| Jharkhand | 179 |
| Bihar | 156 |
| Haryana | 130 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 106 |
| Other states | 351 |
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, vijana, p. 950,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.