MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanchan mean?
Gold is the primary noun sense of Sanskrit kāñcana. The word also works as an adjective for objects with a golden colour.
Pronunciation
IAST: kañcana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कंचन
Letter-by-letter: kañcana
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कांचन
Letter-by-letter: kāṃcana
9,854 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanchan in Indian usage
363,841 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (92.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 336,090 records (92.4%).
- Recorded as male: 27,751 records (7.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 861 |
| 1930s | 2,550 |
| 1940s | 6,663 |
| 1950s | 12,788 |
| 1960s | 28,657 |
| 1970s | 60,730 |
| 1980s | 131,178 |
| 1990s | 120,309 |
| Other decades | 105 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 139,110 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 106,411 |
| Rajasthan | 45,473 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 26,830 |
| Jharkhand | 24,314 |
| Haryana | 6,441 |
| Uttarakhand | 4,729 |
| Maharashtra | 4,501 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,639 |
| Chandigarh | 648 |
| Goa | 618 |
| Delhi | 295 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 157 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 147 |
| Meghalaya | 105 |
| Other states | 423 |
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
- Wiktionary: कंचन ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.