Krsna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: black mountain. the dark half of the lunar month
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Krsna is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 150K
- MXMexico≈1 in 2.1Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈63,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)black mountain. the dark half of the lunar month.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krsna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Krsna | 30 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Krsna | 14 |
| MX Mexico | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Krsna | 21 |
| US United States | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | 5 | Krsna | 56 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 629K | — | Krsna | 8 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 822K | — | Krsna | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | Krsna | 21 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 938K | — | Krsna | 2 |
| GY Guyana | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | Krsna | 1 |
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: the sunama-sarit-sanskrit-2020 register; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Krsna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Rsi Krsna Angirasa (५); Arjuna (M); Krsna
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
a Skandamatrka (M); Durga (M); Krsna
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #589 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2002 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 5 | — |
| IN India | Sunama Sarit — Sanskrit Names (2020) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Krsna mean, and where does it come from?
- black mountain. the dark half of the lunar month. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Krsna a male or female name?
- Krsna is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Krsna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 63 thousand people named Krsna in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krsna.
- How common is the name Krsna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20 people named Krsna in 2022, about 1 in 11 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krsnaThe 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, “Krsna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.