MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vigan mean?
Vigan is a vernacular form of vighna, an obstacle or hindrance. Sanskrit also records Vighna as a name of Ganesha, who is widely invoked as remover of obstacles.
Meaning themes
ganesha
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
विघ्न
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
विगन
Letter-by-letter: vigana
9,808 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vigan in Indian usage
10,287 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (87.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,325 records (12.9%).
- Recorded as male: 8,962 records (87.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 819 |
| 1950s | 1,563 |
| 1960s | 2,510 |
| 1970s | 2,692 |
| 1980s | 1,737 |
| 1990s | 612 |
| Other decades | 354 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 7,074 |
| Jharkhand | 2,730 |
| Other states | 483 |
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, vighna, p. 957,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.