MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Gajanan mean?
Gajanan names Ganesha through his elephant face. The compound uses gaja, elephant, and ānana, face, describing the god invoked at the beginning of new undertakings. Ganesha is the son of Shiva and Parvati.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गजानन
Conventional spelling
Odia
ଗଜାନନ
Conventional spelling
Kannada
ಗಜಾನನ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Gajanan in Indian usage
14,281 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 394 records (2.8%).
- Recorded as male: 13,887 records (97.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 8,331 |
| 1960s | 751 |
| 1970s | 1,532 |
| 1980s | 2,133 |
| 1990s | 1,336 |
| Other decades | 198 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 9,789 |
| Karnataka | 4,492 |
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, gajānana, p. 342,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, gajamukha, p. 342,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, gaṇeśa, p. 343,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.