MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kisan mean?
Kisan is a vernacular form of Krishna used in northern and western India. Krishna's Sanskrit name has the literal sense dark, while the personal name ordinarily refers to the deity of the epic and pastoral stories.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
किसन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kisan in Indian usage
18,568 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling किसन.
Mostly recorded for boys (90.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,841 records (9.9%).
- Recorded as male: 16,727 records (90.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 360 |
| 1940s | 1,215 |
| 1950s | 2,517 |
| 1960s | 3,802 |
| 1970s | 3,732 |
| 1980s | 3,636 |
| 1990s | 3,306 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,782 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,378 |
| Maharashtra | 2,712 |
| Bihar | 2,490 |
| Rajasthan | 2,378 |
| Jharkhand | 913 |
| Uttarakhand | 798 |
| Haryana | 117 |
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, kṛṣṇa, p. 306,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.