MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kan mean?
Kan is a regional short form in the Kanha group of Krishna names. Kanha is the affectionate cowherd name of Krishna in northern devotional songs.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कान
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kan in Indian usage
5,430 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (92.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 394 records (7.3%).
- Recorded as male: 5,036 records (92.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 409 |
| 1950s | 725 |
| 1960s | 910 |
| 1970s | 905 |
| 1980s | 1,160 |
| 1990s | 1,093 |
| Other decades | 228 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 4,658 |
| Maharashtra | 217 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 159 |
| Uttarakhand | 103 |
| Other states | 293 |
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, kṛṣṇa, p. 306,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.