MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Balakrishn mean?
Balakrishn refers specifically to Krishna during childhood. The Sanskrit compound uses bāla, child, and belongs to the devotional vocabulary of Krishna's early life.
Pronunciation
IAST: bālakṛṣṇa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बालकृष्ण
Letter-by-letter: bālakṛṣṇa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Balakrishn in Indian usage
19,732 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 262 records (1.3%).
- Recorded as male: 19,470 records (98.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,380 |
| 1950s | 2,449 |
| 1960s | 3,547 |
| 1970s | 4,408 |
| 1980s | 4,572 |
| 1990s | 2,771 |
| Other decades | 605 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 7,501 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 5,345 |
| Rajasthan | 2,415 |
| Bihar | 2,324 |
| Maharashtra | 845 |
| Jharkhand | 526 |
| Uttarakhand | 401 |
| Haryana | 219 |
| Other states | 156 |
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, bālakṛṣṇa, p. 728,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.