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Krishnan name meaning

“dark, black”

Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Origin
Sanskrit · Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Tamil scriptகிருஷ்ணன்
  • Malayalam scriptകൃഷ്ണൻ
Peak 1950s: 14.8%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s14.2%
1950s14.8%
1960s9.5%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: KSanskrit origin

Krishnan is a male Tamil and Malayalam name, a form of Krishna from Sanskrit meaning 'black, dark'.

What does Krishnan mean?

Dark, black

In Malay: gelap, hitam

Sources (2)

About the name Krishnan

Krishnan is the Tamil and Malayalam form of Krishna, from Sanskrit kṛṣṇa meaning 'black, dark'. Krishna is the name of a Hindu deity regarded as an incarnation of Vishnu. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 987 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Tamil
SyllablesKrish-nan
First letterIndian Names starting with K
Tamil scriptகிருஷ்ணன்
Malayalam scriptകൃഷ്ണൻ

Krishnan in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 461 · 14.2%
1950s
Boy: 987 · 14.8%
1960s
Boy: 790 · 9.5%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Krishnan as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Krishna · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: Krishnan · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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