MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chaman mean?
Chaman is a Persian garden word adopted into Urdu and Hindi. It is frequent in poetic flower imagery, giving the personal name a place-based floral association.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चमन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chaman in Indian usage
64,271 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 16,825 records (26.2%).
- Recorded as male: 47,446 records (73.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,282 |
| 1940s | 3,843 |
| 1950s | 6,808 |
| 1960s | 10,770 |
| 1970s | 14,048 |
| 1980s | 16,524 |
| 1990s | 10,675 |
| Other decades | 321 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 27,618 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 9,134 |
| Punjab | 5,533 |
| Haryana | 4,752 |
| Delhi | 3,805 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,048 |
| Bihar | 2,689 |
| Rajasthan | 2,374 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,368 |
| Jharkhand | 2,206 |
| Chandigarh | 276 |
| Kerala | 148 |
| Other states | 320 |
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