MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Joban mean?
Joban is the Punjabi and northern vernacular form of yauvana, youth. The word is common in regional songs as an image of life’s youthful season.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
जोबन
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਜੋਬਨ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Joban in Indian usage
1,689 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (80.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 327 records (19.4%).
- Recorded as male: 1,362 records (80.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 112 |
| 1970s | 138 |
| 1980s | 305 |
| 1990s | 987 |
| Other decades | 147 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 1,057 |
| Gujarat | 443 |
| Other states | 189 |
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.
Recorded abroad
Official births registered in 2025, for the exact spelling shown.
| Jurisdiction | Spelling / recorded sex | Births | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England & Wales | Joban / M | 3 | 5,137 |
ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.
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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
- England & Wales 2025 birth statistics: Exact spelling Joban; Table_6, C5801 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Joban; Table_6, C5801
- Monier-Williams, yauvana, p. 859,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.