MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Santan mean?
Devotional verse uses santan as a vernacular plural of sant, a saint or holy person. The personal name can also reflect santān, offspring, from Sanskrit santāna. That second noun denotes the continuation of a family through its children.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
संतन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Santan in Indian usage
2,910 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling संतन.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 118 records (4.1%).
- Recorded as male: 2,792 records (95.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 100 |
| 1960s | 371 |
| 1970s | 578 |
| 1980s | 899 |
| 1990s | 962 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 2,269 |
| Jharkhand | 641 |
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, saṃtāna, p. 1142,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.