MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kanhai mean?
Kanhai is an affectionate Braj and Hindi name for Krishna. It is especially familiar in songs about Krishna's childhood among the cowherds of Braj.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कन्हाई
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kanhai in Indian usage
7,053 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling कन्हाई.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 739 |
| 1960s | 1,122 |
| 1970s | 1,617 |
| 1980s | 1,806 |
| 1990s | 1,368 |
| Other decades | 401 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 3,953 |
| Bihar | 3,100 |
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.