MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dipan mean?
Dipan comes from Sanskrit dīpana, the act of kindling or illuminating. Its verbal root dīp describes blazing or shining, linking the name with fire and light.
Pronunciation
IAST: dīpana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दीपन
Letter-by-letter: dīpana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dipan in Indian usage
5,699 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (89.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 621 records (10.9%).
- Recorded as male: 5,078 records (89.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 361 |
| 1950s | 551 |
| 1960s | 816 |
| 1970s | 1,026 |
| 1980s | 1,386 |
| 1990s | 1,353 |
| Other decades | 206 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,230 |
| Assam | 830 |
| Jharkhand | 781 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 467 |
| Tripura | 444 |
| Kerala | 224 |
| Punjab | 110 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 103 |
| Other states | 510 |
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, dīpana, p. 481,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.