MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kesavan mean?
Kesavan is a southern personal-name form of Keshava. The Sanskrit epithet describes beautiful or abundant hair and is used for Vishnu and Krishna.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
केशवन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
കേശവൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kesavan in Indian usage
7,238 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 141 records (1.9%).
- Recorded as male: 7,097 records (98.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 144 |
| 1930s | 876 |
| 1940s | 1,917 |
| 1950s | 2,031 |
| 1960s | 1,271 |
| 1970s | 655 |
| 1980s | 243 |
| Other decades | 101 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 6,593 |
| Puducherry | 274 |
| Other states | 371 |
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
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Kesavan ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, keśava, p. 310,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.