MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Godhan mean?
Godhan is the Sanskrit whole word for cattle regarded as wealth. It reflects the important economic place of cows and herds in early Indian literature.
Pronunciation
IAST: godhana
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गोधन
Letter-by-letter: godhana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Godhan in Indian usage
6,861 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (91.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 576 records (8.4%).
- Recorded as male: 6,285 records (91.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 640 |
| 1950s | 1,082 |
| 1960s | 1,473 |
| 1970s | 1,528 |
| 1980s | 1,232 |
| 1990s | 636 |
| Other decades | 270 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,816 |
| Bihar | 1,460 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,348 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,026 |
| Jharkhand | 104 |
| Other states | 107 |
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, godhana, p. 365,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.