MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kisana mean?
Kisana is a familiar vernacular form of Krishna in northern India. Krishna is the pastoral hero of Braj and the teacher of the Bhagavad Gita, giving the short name a clear epic and devotional referent.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
किसना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kisana in Indian usage
7,777 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling किसना.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 3,444 records (44.3%).
- Recorded as male: 4,333 records (55.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 152 |
| 1940s | 737 |
| 1950s | 1,351 |
| 1960s | 2,039 |
| 1970s | 1,575 |
| 1980s | 1,236 |
| 1990s | 687 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 3,533 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,687 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,557 |
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.