Kishen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: North Indian variant of xrIsHNA
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/kɪʃən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kishen is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 195Kas Kishan
- GYGuyana1 in 3.7Kas Kishan
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 Kishen 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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 named Kishan, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kishan in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 6 more.
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)North Indian variant of xrIsHNA.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kishen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kishan | 28 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Kishan | 18 |
| US United States | — | 1,702as Kishan | 1 in 195K | 1.7K | Kishan | 255 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Kishan | 22 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Kishan | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Kishan | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 477as Kishan | 1 in 36K | 477 | Kishan | 39 |
| GY Guyana | #431 | 202as Kishan | 1 in 3.7K | 202 | Kishan | 2 |
| IN India | #332 | — | — | 6.3K | Kishan | 234 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kishen Singh Kapoorb. 1873Indian mathematician
- I. K. Taimnib. 1898INnot in their usual nameIndian chemist (1898–1978)
- Kishen Pattnaikb. 1930INIndian Social Activist (1930-2004)
- Kishen Narsib. 1939INboxing referee
- Kishen Velanib. 1994GBEnglish cricketer (born 1994)
- Kishen Kamaniab. 1994cricketer
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).
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 165 | #132 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 102 | #28,108 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 24 | #9,968 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #13,691 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Kishen mean, and where does it come from?
- North Indian variant of xrIsHNA. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Kishen?
- In the etymology graph, Krishna, Kishan and Kistna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kishen?
- A machine transcription gives /kɪʃən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kishen a male or female name?
- Kishen is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Kishen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Kishan in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kishen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,702 people named Kishan in 2020, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
- How common is Kishen compared with other names?
- In India, Kishen is the 332nd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kishen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kishenThe 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, “Kishen” — the 332nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.