MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanan mean?
Kanan is the Sanskrit word for a forest or grove adopted in Bengali naming. Its landscape image belongs to the wooded settings of classical poetry and stories.
Pronunciation
IAST: kānana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Bengali
কানন
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कानन
Letter-by-letter: kānana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanan in Indian usage
5,383 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (89.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,797 records (89.1%).
- Recorded as male: 586 records (10.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 570 |
| 1950s | 1,166 |
| 1960s | 1,566 |
| 1970s | 1,094 |
| 1980s | 641 |
| 1990s | 230 |
| Other decades | 116 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Tripura | 2,527 |
| Assam | 1,342 |
| Jharkhand | 621 |
| Bihar | 266 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 149 |
| Maharashtra | 143 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 104 |
| Other states | 231 |
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 | Kanan / M | 18 | 1,466 |
ONS and National Records of Scotland; Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3. Counts follow each office’s publication rules.
Explore related lists
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 Kanan; Table_6, C1500 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Exact spelling Kanan; Table_6, C1500
- Monier-Williams, kānana, p. 270,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.