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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Rahana

Sweet basil; fragrant plant

Rahana means “Sweet basil; fragrant plant”.

Origin language
Arabic / Urdu
First letter
R
Historical records
1,755

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Rahana mean?

Rahana is a regional form of Rehana, the feminine name related to Arabic rayhan. The word denotes sweet basil or another fragrant plant.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

रेहाना

Conventional spelling

Malayalam

റഹാന

Conventional spelling

Arabic

ريحانة

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Rahana in Indian usage

1,755 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Rahana: records by birth decade1970s: 3891970s1980s: 7151980s1990s: 5501990sOther decades: 101Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1970s389
1980s715
1990s550
Other decades101

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Kerala1,514
Other states241
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: ريحانة ↗ (opens in a new tab)

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