MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chetna mean?
Cetanā is a Sanskrit noun for consciousness and understanding. Its root cit concerns perceiving or knowing, placing Chetna in the vocabulary of awareness.
Pronunciation
IAST: cetanā
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चेतना
Letter-by-letter: cetanā
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਚੇਤਨਾ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chetna in Indian usage
24,789 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (98%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 24,301 records (98%).
- Recorded as male: 488 records (2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 300 |
| 1960s | 1,056 |
| 1970s | 3,624 |
| 1980s | 8,886 |
| 1990s | 10,785 |
| Other decades | 138 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 7,121 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,724 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,060 |
| Haryana | 1,386 |
| Punjab | 1,134 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 824 |
| Bihar | 630 |
| Uttarakhand | 608 |
| Karnataka | 453 |
| Odisha | 309 |
| Jharkhand | 237 |
| Maharashtra | 143 |
| Other states | 160 |
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, cetanā, p. 397,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.