MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Vishan mean?
Vishan belongs to the North Indian vernacular forms of Vishnu, alongside Bishan. Vishnu is the deity celebrated as the preserver and through incarnations including Rama and Krishna.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बिशन
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
विशन
Letter-by-letter: viśana
13,640 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Vishan in Indian usage
13,640 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling विशन.
Mostly recorded for boys (85.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,982 records (14.5%).
- Recorded as male: 11,658 records (85.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,395 |
| 1950s | 2,359 |
| 1960s | 3,111 |
| 1970s | 2,789 |
| 1980s | 2,256 |
| 1990s | 1,275 |
| Other decades | 455 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 4,265 |
| Uttarakhand | 3,334 |
| Rajasthan | 2,101 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,476 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1,449 |
| Haryana | 682 |
| Other states | 333 |
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, viṣṇu, p. 999,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.