MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Makhan mean?
Butter is mākhan in vernacular use, with Sanskrit navanīta expressing the same substance. The food has a familiar devotional association with the childhood stories of Krishna.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
माखन
Conventional spelling
Bengali
মাখন
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Makhan in Indian usage
51,715 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,490 records (2.9%).
- Recorded as male: 50,225 records (97.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,245 |
| 1940s | 3,513 |
| 1950s | 5,980 |
| 1960s | 9,776 |
| 1970s | 11,528 |
| 1980s | 11,749 |
| 1990s | 7,606 |
| Other decades | 318 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Punjab | 21,419 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 15,102 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,518 |
| Bihar | 2,271 |
| Rajasthan | 1,825 |
| Haryana | 1,461 |
| Tripura | 1,059 |
| Assam | 991 |
| Jharkhand | 889 |
| Delhi | 508 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 333 |
| Uttarakhand | 147 |
| Other states | 192 |
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