MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sukan mean?
Sukan belongs to the eastern Indian parrot-name family related to Sanskrit shuka and regional suga. Gujarati shukan also denotes an auspicious sign, providing a second established lexical sense.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुकन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sukan in Indian usage
8,906 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: 2,241 records (25.2%).
- Recorded as male: 6,665 records (74.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 379 |
| 1940s | 950 |
| 1950s | 1,583 |
| 1960s | 1,952 |
| 1970s | 1,968 |
| 1980s | 1,353 |
| 1990s | 606 |
| Other decades | 115 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 4,792 |
| Jharkhand | 1,745 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 930 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 540 |
| Haryana | 476 |
| Rajasthan | 222 |
| Other states | 201 |
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, śuka, p. 1079,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śakuna, p. 1046,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.