Across the world, Balakrishnan (Balakrishnan 
, Балакришнан 
, ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ) is quite a common primarily male, but very seldom girly forename. The given name Balakrishnan is characteristic of Western Asia, particularly United Arab Emirates, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Bahrain, and Oman. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in India, Sri Lanka, and United Arab Emirates. Likewise, Balakrishnan is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Balakrishnan | United Arab Emirates, United States, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia |
| Балакришнан | Russia, Ukraine |
| madura s. balakrishnan botanist (1917-1990) (b. 1917) |
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| nambiyath puthansurayil balakrishnan botanist, IN (b. 1935) |
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| kannan balakrishnan musical artist, IN (b. 1964) |
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| gurusamy balakrishnan researcher |
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| kannan balakrishnan Ph.D. |
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| vijayakumar balakrishnan researcher |
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| rajagopal balakrishnan Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2016 |
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| prabagar balakrishnan researcher |
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| jeyendran balakrishnan Ph.D. Yale University 1996 |
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| ramachandran balakrishnan researcher |
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| balamuralitharan balakrishnan researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0017-170X) |
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| narayanan balakrishnan researcher |
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| rengasamy balakrishnan researcher |
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| guha balakrishnan Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018 |
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| ravikumar balakrishnan Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology 2015 |
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