MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sapan mean?
Sapan continues the vernacular word for a dream. Its Sanskrit source svapna covers dreaming as well as a vision seen in sleep.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सपन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sapan in Indian usage
10,923 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 433 records (4%).
- Recorded as male: 10,490 records (96%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 608 |
| 1960s | 1,465 |
| 1970s | 2,762 |
| 1980s | 3,755 |
| 1990s | 2,141 |
| Other decades | 192 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Jharkhand | 4,604 |
| Bihar | 1,515 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,432 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 842 |
| Uttarakhand | 590 |
| Delhi | 530 |
| Assam | 406 |
| Rajasthan | 215 |
| Haryana | 161 |
| Punjab | 153 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 118 |
| Other states | 357 |
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, svapna, p. 1280,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.