MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jagan mean?
Jagan is familiar as a short form of longer names such as Jagannath, lord of the world. Its underlying jagat is the Sanskrit word for the world, including living beings.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जगन
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
जागन
Letter-by-letter: jāgana
3,930 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jagan in Indian usage
35,461 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,640 records (4.6%).
- Recorded as male: 33,821 records (95.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,660 |
| 1940s | 4,045 |
| 1950s | 5,974 |
| 1960s | 7,169 |
| 1970s | 6,857 |
| 1980s | 5,933 |
| 1990s | 3,397 |
| Other decades | 426 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,222 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,219 |
| Bihar | 4,111 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 3,867 |
| Rajasthan | 3,177 |
| Punjab | 2,744 |
| Jharkhand | 2,521 |
| Haryana | 2,292 |
| Delhi | 1,374 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 470 |
| Kerala | 338 |
| Maharashtra | 330 |
| Uttarakhand | 323 |
| Puducherry | 150 |
| Chandigarh | 123 |
| Other states | 200 |
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, jagat, p. 408,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.