MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kannan mean?
Kannan is a Tamil name of Krishna. One traditional derivation connects it with the older Indo-Aryan form Kanha. Tamil also has a matching form made from kaṇ, eye, with a masculine ending, giving the word a second grammatical reading.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कण्णन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kannan in Indian usage
16,880 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 412 records (2.4%).
- Recorded as male: 16,468 records (97.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 763 |
| 1940s | 1,599 |
| 1950s | 2,135 |
| 1960s | 2,648 |
| 1970s | 3,953 |
| 1980s | 3,593 |
| 1990s | 2,050 |
| Other decades | 139 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 14,029 |
| Puducherry | 1,756 |
| Maharashtra | 703 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 219 |
| Other states | 173 |
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: கண்ணன் ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.