MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Darpan mean?
Sanskrit darpaṇa is the noun for a mirror. The word appears in Sahityadarpana, Vishvanatha Kaviraja’s Sanskrit treatise on literary composition and poetics.
Pronunciation
IAST: darpaṇa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दर्पण
Letter-by-letter: darpaṇa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Darpan in Indian usage
2,838 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: 1,156 records (40.7%).
- Recorded as male: 1,682 records (59.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 136 |
| 1950s | 187 |
| 1960s | 260 |
| 1970s | 398 |
| 1980s | 892 |
| 1990s | 854 |
| Other decades | 111 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 978 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 552 |
| Delhi | 320 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 281 |
| Haryana | 213 |
| Rajasthan | 189 |
| Other states | 305 |
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, darpaṇa, p. 470,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, sāhityadarpaṇa, p. 1212,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.