MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Balakrishnan mean?
Balakrishnan is a southern form of the Sanskrit name Balakrishna. Bāla specifies Krishna as a child. The boy deity is a major subject of devotional song and images, giving the name a particular childhood association.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
बालकृष्णन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Balakrishnan in Indian usage
34,461 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 1,618 |
| 1940s | 5,505 |
| 1950s | 10,273 |
| 1960s | 10,129 |
| 1970s | 5,117 |
| 1980s | 1,372 |
| 1990s | 284 |
| Other decades | 163 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 33,544 |
| Puducherry | 788 |
| Other states | 129 |
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)
- Wiktionary: बाल (bāla) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa) ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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