MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Narayanan mean?
Narayanan is a southern personal-name form of Narayana. In devotional use, Narayana identifies Vishnu and is closely associated with Lakshmi.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नारायणन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
നാരായണൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Narayanan in Indian usage
46,912 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 681 records (1.5%).
- Recorded as male: 46,231 records (98.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 686 |
| 1930s | 4,302 |
| 1940s | 10,340 |
| 1950s | 14,149 |
| 1960s | 10,823 |
| 1970s | 5,071 |
| 1980s | 1,247 |
| Other decades | 294 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 44,921 |
| Maharashtra | 1,111 |
| Puducherry | 695 |
| Other states | 185 |
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
- Behind the Name: Narayana ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Wiktionary: नारायण ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Monier-Williams, nārāyaṇa, p. 536,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.