MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kishun mean?
Kishun is a familiar north Indian vernacular form of Krishna. It appears in household and devotional naming, retaining the reference to the deity known from the Bhagavad Gita and childhood stories of Vraja.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कृष्ण
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
किशुन
Letter-by-letter: kiśuna
27,002 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kishun in Indian usage
27,002 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling किशुन.
Mostly recorded for boys (93.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,772 records (6.6%).
- Recorded as male: 25,230 records (93.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 194 |
| 1930s | 1,063 |
| 1940s | 2,749 |
| 1950s | 4,669 |
| 1960s | 6,039 |
| 1970s | 5,387 |
| 1980s | 4,328 |
| 1990s | 2,573 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 11,183 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 7,985 |
| Jharkhand | 6,984 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 850 |
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.