MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Madan mean?
Delight and excitement are central to Sanskrit madana, which also names the love deity Kama in literature. In Sanskrit narratives, Kama is the husband of Rati, the personification of pleasure.
Pronunciation
IAST: madana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मदन
Letter-by-letter: madana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Madan in Indian usage
336,187 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 7,661 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 328,526 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,206 |
| 1930s | 5,986 |
| 1940s | 20,363 |
| 1950s | 47,318 |
| 1960s | 80,793 |
| 1970s | 82,752 |
| 1980s | 64,715 |
| 1990s | 32,882 |
| Other decades | 172 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 72,176 |
| Rajasthan | 69,692 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 62,432 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 29,954 |
| Haryana | 23,147 |
| Jharkhand | 19,872 |
| Uttarakhand | 14,485 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 12,578 |
| Delhi | 10,666 |
| Punjab | 8,775 |
| Assam | 3,721 |
| Maharashtra | 3,700 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,623 |
| Tripura | 1,189 |
| Chandigarh | 893 |
| Sikkim | 242 |
| Goa | 211 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 170 |
| Meghalaya | 135 |
| Kerala | 118 |
| Other states | 408 |
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, madana, p. 778,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: मदन ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Monier-Williams, kāma, p. 271,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.