MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chandan mean?
Candana names the fragrant wood used in paste, incense and ritual offerings, so its literal meaning is a material. Chandana is the fuller Sanskrit tree and aromatic-wood word.
Pronunciation
IAST: candana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चंदन
Letter-by-letter: candana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chandan in Indian usage
363,774 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: 20,028 records (5.5%).
- Recorded as male: 343,746 records (94.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 921 |
| 1930s | 1,643 |
| 1940s | 4,215 |
| 1950s | 7,575 |
| 1960s | 14,608 |
| 1970s | 34,319 |
| 1980s | 146,380 |
| 1990s | 153,938 |
| Other decades | 175 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 200,901 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 64,462 |
| Jharkhand | 25,792 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 17,666 |
| Uttarakhand | 13,116 |
| Rajasthan | 9,255 |
| Delhi | 9,086 |
| Assam | 6,420 |
| Tripura | 4,758 |
| Maharashtra | 4,526 |
| Haryana | 4,052 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,131 |
| Goa | 559 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 387 |
| Chandigarh | 346 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 228 |
| Meghalaya | 224 |
| Gujarat | 201 |
| Kerala | 166 |
| Other states | 498 |
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, candana, p. 386,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: चंदन ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.