MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kaptan mean?
Kaptan is the Indian loan form of captain. The rank word is used for military and sporting leadership and has also become a personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कप्तान
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kaptan in Indian usage
22,460 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 287 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 22,173 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 963 |
| 1950s | 2,003 |
| 1960s | 4,108 |
| 1970s | 5,144 |
| 1980s | 5,906 |
| 1990s | 4,044 |
| Other decades | 292 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 12,657 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,620 |
| Haryana | 2,893 |
| Rajasthan | 2,683 |
| Gujarat | 248 |
| Other states | 359 |
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