MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Nandakishor mean?
Nandakishor joins Nanda, Krishna's foster father, with kiśora, a young boy. The compound is a devotional address to Krishna in his youthful form.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नन्दकिशोर
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
नंदकिशोर
Letter-by-letter: naṃdakiśora
31,753 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Nandakishor in Indian usage
31,753 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
These totals and margins describe the spelling नंदकिशोर.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 160 records (0.5%).
- Recorded as male: 31,593 records (99.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 246 |
| 1940s | 1,307 |
| 1950s | 3,411 |
| 1960s | 6,264 |
| 1970s | 8,078 |
| 1980s | 7,838 |
| 1990s | 4,609 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 13,151 |
| Bihar | 11,438 |
| Rajasthan | 2,509 |
| Jharkhand | 2,366 |
| Other states | 2,289 |
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, kiśora, p. 284,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, nanda, p. 526,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.