MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sujan mean?
Hindi and Punjabi sujān describes a wise or discerning person. Sanskrit sujana provides another established sense, a good or kind person. That Sanskrit compound joins su, good, with jana, person.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुजान
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਸੁਜਾਨ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुजन
Letter-by-letter: sujana
846 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sujan in Indian usage
18,770 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 5,387 records (28.7%).
- Recorded as male: 13,383 records (71.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 619 |
| 1940s | 1,379 |
| 1950s | 2,123 |
| 1960s | 3,115 |
| 1970s | 3,243 |
| 1980s | 4,043 |
| 1990s | 4,014 |
| Other decades | 234 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,554 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,294 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,682 |
| Rajasthan | 1,950 |
| Tripura | 1,294 |
| Jharkhand | 873 |
| Assam | 810 |
| Haryana | 696 |
| Punjab | 513 |
| Uttarakhand | 512 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 382 |
| Delhi | 308 |
| Kerala | 304 |
| Maharashtra | 161 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 105 |
| Other states | 332 |
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, sujana, p. 1223,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.