Krishan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Krishan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 20th most common given name. Recorded meaning: incarnation of Vishnu (protecting god).
- NPNepal≈1 in 192as Krishna(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 2.2Kas กฤษณะ
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.6Kas Krishna
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Krishan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #363 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named Krishna, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Krishna in IN India, ID Indonesia, BD Bangladesh and 4 more and กฤษณะ in TH Thailand.
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)
incarnation of Vishnu (protecting god)
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krishan 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 192 | — | Krishna | 105 |
| BD Bangladesh | #315 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Krishna | 68 |
| TH Thailand | #182 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | #7,643 | กฤษณะ | 134 |
| CN China | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Krishna | 21 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | listed | Krishna | 119 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #241 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Krishan | 49 |
| GY Guyana | #62 | 585as Krishna | 1 in 1.3K | 585 | Krishna | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 217 | 1 in 80K | 217 | Krishna | 51 |
| IN India | #20 | — | — | 11K | Krishna | 336 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Krishan Palb. 1957INIndian politician
- Krishan Arorab. 1962GB50th member of the NHS's staff to succumb to COVID-19 during the 2020 pandemic
- Krishan Gopal ThakurINresearcher
- Krishan KumarINresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-0088-3662)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 118K | #31 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 217 | #2,764 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 105 | #7,802 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 31 | #563 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| IN India | A Genealogist's Guide to Indian Names (Ellefson, 2002) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Krishan mean, and where does it come from?
- incarnation of Vishnu (protecting god) Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- Is Krishan a male or female name?
- Krishan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Krishan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 158 thousand people named Krishna in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Krishan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 217 people named Krishan, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Krishan compared with other names?
- In India, Krishan is the 20th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krishanThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Krishan” — the 20th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.