MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nain mean?
Nain is the familiar Hindi and Punjabi word for eyes, descending from Sanskrit nayana. Poetic language often uses the eyes as an image of beauty and affection, which helps explain its use as a personal name.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नैन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nain in Indian usage
8,235 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: 2,034 records (24.7%).
- Recorded as male: 6,201 records (75.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 945 |
| 1950s | 1,300 |
| 1960s | 1,749 |
| 1970s | 1,659 |
| 1980s | 1,401 |
| 1990s | 782 |
| Other decades | 399 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttarakhand | 2,188 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,904 |
| Bihar | 1,171 |
| Rajasthan | 742 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 647 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 619 |
| Haryana | 331 |
| Delhi | 235 |
| Jharkhand | 178 |
| Other states | 220 |
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, nayana, p. 528,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.