MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dukhan mean?
Dukhan is a northern personal name built on dukh, sorrow or hardship. It belongs to vernacular naming that can preserve difficult family circumstances in a child's name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दुखन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dukhan in Indian usage
14,294 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 818 records (5.7%).
- Recorded as male: 13,476 records (94.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 632 |
| 1940s | 1,549 |
| 1950s | 2,609 |
| 1960s | 3,202 |
| 1970s | 3,061 |
| 1980s | 2,064 |
| 1990s | 1,001 |
| Other decades | 176 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 9,825 |
| Jharkhand | 4,035 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 278 |
| Other states | 156 |
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