Kishore
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘colt’ or ‘young boy’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkiˌʃɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kishore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 193K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 5.8K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 48K
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 Kishore 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 named Kishor, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kishor in US United States, KW Kuwait, BD Bangladesh and 4 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)
Sanskrit: ‘colt’ or ‘young boy’. Feminine form: Kishori (‘filly’).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kishore 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #907 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Kishor | 40 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 2 | Kishor | 71 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Kishore | 21 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Kishor | 25 |
| US United States | — | 1,727 | 1 in 193K | 1.7K | Kishor | 296 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Kishor | 18 |
| QA Qatar | #311 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Kishor | 21 |
| KW Kuwait | #775 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Kishor | 7 |
| GY Guyana | — | 129 | 1 in 5.8K | 129 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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)
Kishore is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from Sanskrit.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rajendra Kishore Pandab. 1944INIndian Odia-language poet
- Naveen Kishoreb. 1953INIndian writer and theatre practitioner
- Joe Kishoreb. 1980USAmerican Trotskyist activist and writer
- Shriya Kishoreb. 1986INIndian model
- Deepali Kishoreb. 1989INIndian singer
- Uday Kishoreb. 2000USresearcher
- Nand KishoreUSPh.D. University of California, Berkeley 1961
- Amit KishoreCZresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 886 | #28,606 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 583 | #38,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 346 | #55,481 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Kishore come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘colt’ or ‘young boy’. Feminine form: Kishori (‘filly’). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Kishore?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkiˌʃɔɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Kishore mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘colt’ or ‘young boy’.
- In which country does Kishore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Kishor in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kishore most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kishore is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 5.8 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kishore?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,727 people named Kishore in 2020, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
- How common is Kishore compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Kishore is the 907th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kishore?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kishoreThe 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, “Kishore” — the 907th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.