MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kushna mean?
Kushna is a colloquial form of Krishna, which means dark or dark-blue and is the name of the god Krishna. In the feminine, Krishna is also an epithet of Draupadi in the Mahabharata and of Durga.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कुष्णा
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kushna in Indian usage
500 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling कुष्णा.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 214 records (42.8%).
- Recorded as male: 286 records (57.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1980s | 276 |
| 1990s | 124 |
| Other decades | 100 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 342 |
| Other states | 158 |
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)
- Monier-Williams, kṛṣṇā, p. 306,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.