MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Meharaban mean?
Meharaban continues Persian mehrbān, a familiar word for kindness. Its components bring affection, mehr, together with a keeper or guardian ending, forming the idea of caring benevolence.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मेहरबान
Conventional spelling
Arabic
مهربان
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Meharaban in Indian usage
14,547 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 149 records (1%).
- Recorded as male: 14,398 records (99%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 442 |
| 1950s | 1,014 |
| 1960s | 2,132 |
| 1970s | 3,503 |
| 1980s | 4,423 |
| 1990s | 2,869 |
| Other decades | 164 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 6,270 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,112 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,885 |
| Rajasthan | 479 |
| Haryana | 383 |
| Punjab | 238 |
| Other states | 180 |
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