MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Charan mean?
Caraṇa is the Sanskrit word for a foot and can also denote a step. In devotional address, the feet of a teacher or deity become a way of expressing reverence.
Pronunciation
IAST: caraṇa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चरण
Letter-by-letter: caraṇa
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
चरन
Letter-by-letter: carana
37,280 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Charan in Indian usage
105,740 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: 22,089 records (20.9%).
- Recorded as male: 83,651 records (79.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,117 |
| 1930s | 5,025 |
| 1940s | 11,920 |
| 1950s | 15,300 |
| 1960s | 19,109 |
| 1970s | 21,868 |
| 1980s | 20,686 |
| 1990s | 10,608 |
| Other decades | 107 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 34,493 |
| Punjab | 27,354 |
| Haryana | 11,824 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 8,168 |
| Rajasthan | 5,331 |
| Jharkhand | 5,167 |
| Delhi | 3,655 |
| Uttarakhand | 2,758 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,389 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,282 |
| Bihar | 753 |
| Maharashtra | 433 |
| Tripura | 389 |
| Chandigarh | 355 |
| Kerala | 146 |
| Other states | 243 |
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, caraṇa, p. 389,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.