MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Palatan mean?
Palatan is the Hindi military word palṭan used as a personal name. The word entered South Asian languages from the European term platoon and denotes a body of soldiers.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पलटन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Palatan in Indian usage
5,395 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 100 records (1.9%).
- Recorded as male: 5,295 records (98.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 641 |
| 1950s | 932 |
| 1960s | 1,133 |
| 1970s | 1,176 |
| 1980s | 836 |
| 1990s | 386 |
| Other decades | 291 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,863 |
| Jharkhand | 2,085 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 337 |
| Other states | 110 |
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