MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Khelan mean?
Khelan is a Sanskrit noun for play or pastime that continues in Hindi name use. The same verbal family supplies khel, the ordinary word for a game.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
खेलन
Conventional spelling
Bengali
খেলন
571 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Khelan in Indian usage
4,192 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 3,248 records (77.5%).
- Recorded as male: 944 records (22.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 608 |
| 1960s | 1,167 |
| 1970s | 1,088 |
| 1980s | 692 |
| 1990s | 338 |
| Other decades | 299 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,840 |
| Tripura | 707 |
| Bihar | 264 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 120 |
| Rajasthan | 106 |
| Other states | 155 |
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, khelana, p. 340,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.