MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mohan mean?
Mohan is the enchanting adjective used as a familiar Krishna epithet in devotional language. Sanskrit mohana belongs to the moha word family and is also recorded as a name of Shiva.
Pronunciation
IAST: mohana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मोहन
Letter-by-letter: mohana
Conventional spelling
Bengali
মোহন
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mohan in Indian usage
594,516 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 26,024 records (4.4%).
- Recorded as male: 568,492 records (95.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 2,461 |
| 1930s | 11,680 |
| 1940s | 37,351 |
| 1950s | 77,592 |
| 1960s | 122,591 |
| 1970s | 129,597 |
| 1980s | 129,639 |
| 1990s | 83,334 |
| Other decades | 271 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 121,816 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 113,430 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 98,887 |
| Bihar | 87,075 |
| Jharkhand | 30,680 |
| Uttarakhand | 29,869 |
| Haryana | 27,359 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 21,968 |
| Delhi | 16,481 |
| Punjab | 12,424 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 9,462 |
| Kerala | 7,742 |
| Assam | 5,006 |
| Maharashtra | 4,894 |
| Goa | 1,519 |
| Puducherry | 1,377 |
| Chandigarh | 1,138 |
| Tripura | 1,001 |
| Sikkim | 629 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 396 |
| Gujarat | 278 |
| Meghalaya | 252 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 243 |
| Manipur | 170 |
| Karnataka | 142 |
| Nagaland | 117 |
| Other states | 161 |
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
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Mohan ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, mohana, p. 836,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Mohana ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Mohan ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: Mohan ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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