MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ketan mean?
Ketana is a Sanskrit word for a house or dwelling and also for a sign or banner. The banner sense appears in compounds that identify someone through the emblem on a standard.
Pronunciation
IAST: ketana
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
केतन
Letter-by-letter: ketana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ketan in Indian usage
4,727 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 157 records (3.3%).
- Recorded as male: 4,570 records (96.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 209 |
| 1980s | 1,544 |
| 1990s | 2,797 |
| Other decades | 177 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,277 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 941 |
| Rajasthan | 633 |
| Punjab | 431 |
| Bihar | 391 |
| Haryana | 330 |
| Uttarakhand | 183 |
| Jharkhand | 158 |
| Maharashtra | 156 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 106 |
| Other states | 121 |
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, ketana, p. 308,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.