MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Krishn mean?
Krishn refers to Krishna, whose Sanskrit name also has the literal sense dark. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna instructs Arjuna on action, knowledge and devotion.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Bengali
কৃষ্ণ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
कृष्ण
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Krishn in Indian usage
498,016 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (93.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 32,974 records (6.6%).
- Recorded as male: 465,042 records (93.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,285 |
| 1930s | 6,286 |
| 1940s | 21,758 |
| 1950s | 51,833 |
| 1960s | 93,267 |
| 1970s | 110,213 |
| 1980s | 117,242 |
| 1990s | 95,910 |
| Other decades | 222 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 157,324 |
| Haryana | 108,068 |
| Bihar | 96,330 |
| Rajasthan | 50,770 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 29,873 |
| Jharkhand | 20,174 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 13,304 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,034 |
| Assam | 7,456 |
| Tripura | 4,836 |
| Chandigarh | 1,405 |
| Maharashtra | 260 |
| Other states | 182 |
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.