MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pujan mean?
Pujan is Sanskrit pūjana, the act of honouring or worshipping. The noun can cover respectful attention and hospitality as well as formal religious worship.
Pronunciation
IAST: pūjana
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पूजन
Letter-by-letter: pūjana
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pujan in Indian usage
5,295 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (87.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 671 records (12.7%).
- Recorded as male: 4,624 records (87.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 543 |
| 1950s | 862 |
| 1960s | 953 |
| 1970s | 883 |
| 1980s | 863 |
| 1990s | 909 |
| Other decades | 282 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,455 |
| Bihar | 1,993 |
| Jharkhand | 172 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 118 |
| Other states | 557 |
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, pūjana, p. 641,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.