MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanai mean?
Kanai is a Bengali familiar name for Krishna, related to Kanhaiya. It carries the pastoral Krishna reference found in Bengali songs and devotional storytelling.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कानाइ
Conventional spelling
Bengali
কানাই
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanai in Indian usage
1,751 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 209 |
| 1960s | 297 |
| 1970s | 379 |
| 1980s | 366 |
| 1990s | 301 |
| Other decades | 199 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Assam | 1,028 |
| Other states | 723 |
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