MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chanan mean?
Chanan is the Punjabi word cānaṇ, light. It works both as a common word for illumination and as a personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चानण
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਚਾਨਣ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chanan in Indian usage
4,334 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 237 records (5.5%).
- Recorded as male: 4,097 records (94.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 380 |
| 1940s | 664 |
| 1950s | 734 |
| 1960s | 855 |
| 1970s | 726 |
| 1980s | 572 |
| 1990s | 264 |
| Other decades | 139 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 2,165 |
| Haryana | 939 |
| Rajasthan | 772 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 207 |
| Bihar | 107 |
| Other states | 144 |
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