MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shan mean?
Shan continues the Urdu word shan, describing dignity, grandeur, or impressive standing. Its Arabic source also concerns a person's state or importance, which developed into the familiar South Asian sense of prestige.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Arabic
شان
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शान
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shan in Indian usage
3,389 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 328 records (9.7%).
- Recorded as male: 3,061 records (90.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1970s | 338 |
| 1980s | 1,795 |
| 1990s | 1,067 |
| Other decades | 189 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 1,913 |
| Delhi | 1,078 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 202 |
| Other states | 196 |
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: شأن ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.