MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shaitan mean?
The Arabic source shayṭān denotes the devil, a sense retained in Hindi and Urdu. Everyday speech also uses the word for a mischievous child, giving the name a colloquial association with playful troublemaking.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शैतान
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shaitan in Indian usage
20,404 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling शैतान.
Mostly recorded for boys (91.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,782 records (8.7%).
- Recorded as male: 18,622 records (91.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 155 |
| 1940s | 589 |
| 1950s | 1,307 |
| 1960s | 2,678 |
| 1970s | 3,599 |
| 1980s | 6,060 |
| 1990s | 6,016 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 14,054 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4,993 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,357 |
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
- Wiktionary: शैतान ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.