MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Budhan mean?
Budhan is a regional name built on Budh, the planet Mercury and the weekday Wednesday. In Sanskrit tradition, Budha is a son of Soma, the moon, giving the calendar name a mythological background.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बुधन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Budhan in Indian usage
29,792 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (89.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 3,170 records (10.6%).
- Recorded as male: 26,622 records (89.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 957 |
| 1940s | 2,491 |
| 1950s | 4,342 |
| 1960s | 5,835 |
| 1970s | 6,577 |
| 1980s | 5,891 |
| 1990s | 3,395 |
| Other decades | 304 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 14,255 |
| Bihar | 13,303 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 756 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 632 |
| Maharashtra | 400 |
| Assam | 133 |
| Other states | 313 |
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, budha, p. 734,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.