MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanchana mean?
Kanchana is a feminine personal form of kāñcana, gold or golden. The Sanskrit word can name the precious metal or describe something made from it.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कंचना
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
കാഞ്ചന
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanchana in Indian usage
15,418 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 15,290 records (99.2%).
- Recorded as male: 128 records (0.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 1,153 |
| 1960s | 2,597 |
| 1970s | 3,631 |
| 1980s | 4,381 |
| 1990s | 3,318 |
| Other decades | 338 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 4,469 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,680 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 2,281 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,095 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,635 |
| Bihar | 1,071 |
| Puducherry | 463 |
| Jharkhand | 295 |
| Uttarakhand | 264 |
| Other states | 165 |
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, kāñcana, p. 268,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.