MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Chitaranjan mean?
Chitaranjan is a vernacular form of Chittaranjan. The Sanskrit compound joins citta, mind or heart, with rañjana, delighting, and is used in modern Indian languages for mental enjoyment.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
चित्तरंजन
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
चितरंजन
Letter-by-letter: citaraṃjana
15,524 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Chitaranjan in Indian usage
16,614 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 216 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 16,398 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 358 |
| 1950s | 1,065 |
| 1960s | 2,155 |
| 1970s | 3,678 |
| 1980s | 4,821 |
| 1990s | 4,374 |
| Other decades | 163 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 11,984 |
| Jharkhand | 2,329 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,215 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 396 |
| Rajasthan | 322 |
| Uttarakhand | 153 |
| Other states | 215 |
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, rañjana, p. 863,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, citta, p. 395,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.