MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Phekan mean?
Phekan draws on the eastern Hindi verb pheknā, to throw or cast. It is one of the regional action-based names formed from everyday verbs.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
फेकन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Phekan in Indian usage
4,931 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (85.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 704 records (14.3%).
- Recorded as male: 4,227 records (85.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 406 |
| 1950s | 773 |
| 1960s | 1,137 |
| 1970s | 1,189 |
| 1980s | 819 |
| 1990s | 432 |
| Other decades | 175 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,936 |
| Jharkhand | 915 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 603 |
| Other states | 477 |
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