MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Bishan mean?
Bishan is a familiar North Indian form of Vishnu’s name. Vishnu is the preserving deity whose incarnations include Rama and Krishna.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बिशन
Conventional spelling
Bengali
বিষণ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Bishan in Indian usage
2,307 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 216 records (9.4%).
- Recorded as male: 2,091 records (90.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 191 |
| 1950s | 258 |
| 1960s | 337 |
| 1970s | 500 |
| 1980s | 587 |
| 1990s | 328 |
| Other decades | 106 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Assam | 1,117 |
| Delhi | 938 |
| Tripura | 125 |
| Other states | 127 |
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, viṣṇu, p. 999,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.