Kišan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: rainy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
Kišan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NPNepal1 in 21K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 32K
- HRCroatia1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kišan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
41,267 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kishan in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)rainy
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kišan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
41,267 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling kisan. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 92 | #8,510 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 81 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kišan mean, and where does it come from?
- rainy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kišan have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Kišan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kishan.
- Where is Kišan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kišan is densest in Nepal — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kišan?
- In India, the national register counted 41,267 people named Kišan, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kišan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ki%C5%A1anThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kišan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.