MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sakun mean?
Hindi Sakun belongs to the shagun family of words for an auspicious sign. Its Sanskrit source śakuna also denotes a bird whose appearance was read as an omen. Sanskrit additionally uses the word for a festival song intended to secure a favourable outcome.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सकुन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sakun in Indian usage
35,907 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for girls (97.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 35,004 records (97.5%).
- Recorded as male: 903 records (2.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,067 |
| 1950s | 3,797 |
| 1960s | 8,164 |
| 1970s | 10,834 |
| 1980s | 7,783 |
| 1990s | 4,017 |
| Other decades | 245 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 28,372 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,954 |
| Bihar | 2,220 |
| Jharkhand | 1,530 |
| Rajasthan | 345 |
| Haryana | 194 |
| Uttarakhand | 115 |
| Other states | 177 |
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, śakuna, p. 1046,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.