MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kishana mean?
Kishana is a vernacular form of Krishna used in northern naming. The name recalls the cowherd deity of Braj, while its Sanskrit base also describes a dark colour.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
किशना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kishana in Indian usage
16,000 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling किशना.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 6,204 records (38.8%).
- Recorded as male: 9,796 records (61.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 136 |
| 1930s | 800 |
| 1940s | 1,927 |
| 1950s | 3,087 |
| 1960s | 3,881 |
| 1970s | 2,616 |
| 1980s | 1,924 |
| 1990s | 1,629 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 10,778 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,122 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,617 |
| Other states | 483 |
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.