MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Jnan mean?
Jnan corresponds to Sanskrit jñāna, the knowledge noun. Sanskrit jñāna is an abstract noun from jñā, to know or understand.
Pronunciation
IAST: jñāna
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
ज्ञान
Letter-by-letter: jñāna
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
ग्यान
Letter-by-letter: gyāna
1,067 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Jnan in Indian usage
117,692 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 36,244 records (30.8%).
- Recorded as male: 81,448 records (69.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 3,189 |
| 1940s | 8,966 |
| 1950s | 14,828 |
| 1960s | 22,515 |
| 1970s | 24,743 |
| 1980s | 26,283 |
| 1990s | 16,449 |
| Other decades | 719 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 57,523 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 14,462 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 10,252 |
| Haryana | 10,042 |
| Rajasthan | 6,748 |
| Bihar | 6,273 |
| Delhi | 5,323 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,102 |
| Jharkhand | 2,180 |
| Chandigarh | 402 |
| Assam | 368 |
| Maharashtra | 318 |
| Sikkim | 282 |
| Tripura | 113 |
| Other states | 304 |
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, jñāna, p. 426,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.