MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Panchanan mean?
Pañca denotes five and ānana a face. Panchanan refers to Shiva's five-faced form and is familiar in eastern Indian naming.
Pronunciation
IAST: pañcānana
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पंचानन
Letter-by-letter: pañcānana
Conventional spelling
Odia
ପଞ୍ଚାନନ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Panchanan in Indian usage
48,717 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (91.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,221 records (8.7%).
- Recorded as male: 44,496 records (91.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 8,142 |
| 1940s | 1,432 |
| 1950s | 2,969 |
| 1960s | 14,533 |
| 1970s | 5,444 |
| 1980s | 14,041 |
| 1990s | 1,555 |
| Other decades | 601 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Odisha | 48,717 |
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, pañcānana, p. 578,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.