MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chetan mean?
Cetana denotes consciousness or a sentient being in Sanskrit. Its Sanskrit base cetana can describe awareness, understanding or conscious activity.
Pronunciation
IAST: cetana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चेतन
Letter-by-letter: cetana
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਚੇਤਨ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chetan in Indian usage
62,614 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: 3,474 records (5.5%).
- Recorded as male: 59,140 records (94.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 466 |
| 1940s | 1,199 |
| 1950s | 2,414 |
| 1960s | 4,273 |
| 1970s | 7,284 |
| 1980s | 20,482 |
| 1990s | 26,362 |
| Other decades | 134 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 21,035 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 11,884 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 9,865 |
| Delhi | 4,268 |
| Haryana | 3,596 |
| Punjab | 3,506 |
| Bihar | 2,238 |
| Jharkhand | 1,445 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,434 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,223 |
| Goa | 520 |
| Maharashtra | 355 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 331 |
| Chandigarh | 220 |
| Kerala | 206 |
| Other states | 488 |
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, cetana, p. 397,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.