MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ganesan mean?
Ganesan is the Tamil personal-name form of Ganesha. The elephant-headed deity is honoured as a remover of obstacles. He is invoked at the beginning of undertakings and literary compositions.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गणेशन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ഗണേശൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ganesan in Indian usage
7,259 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 271 records (3.7%).
- Recorded as male: 6,988 records (96.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 306 |
| 1950s | 932 |
| 1960s | 2,308 |
| 1970s | 2,261 |
| 1980s | 1,136 |
| Other decades | 316 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 5,126 |
| Puducherry | 1,379 |
| Maharashtra | 553 |
| Other states | 201 |
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
- Wiktionary: கணேசன் ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, gaṇeśa, p. 343,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.