Given name
Kanchan
“gold”
Kanchan is a feminine given name from Hindi, meaning “gold.”
Original Hindiकंचन
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kanchan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 7
- 0 boys · 7 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,033 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kanchan’s family of names
In English usage, Kanchan has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form कंचन. In English usage, Kanchan was borrowed from the Hindi form कंचन.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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