Krishna

Where Krishna comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa).
— Wiktionary's entry for Krishna
  • Sanskrit
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1957
    First appearance
    #3,993 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2000
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2004
    Peak, #1,653
    78 babies named Krishna — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Sanskrit.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Krishna hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.