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Jishnu

#11,278 in 2025Boys' name

Transliteration of জ

Jishnu has been given to 112 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #11,278 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Jishnu, 2025

1 in 553,000

Jishnu over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jishnu: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of জ

Sanskrit

What Jishnu means

Jishnu is a transliteration of জ.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Bengali জিষ্ণু (jiśnu), Malayalam ജിഷ്ണു (jiṣṇu), etc.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jishnu (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Jishnu is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Jishnu comes through Bengali জিষ্ণু and Malayalam ജിഷ്ണു.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include জ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 112 boys were recorded with the name Jishnu between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2010; its best national rank was #7,298 in 2010.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,335 in 2015 to #11,278 in 2025.

How common is Jishnu?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,278
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jishnu sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jishnu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jishnus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jishnu was born before 2014 — so the typical Jishnu is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
112
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 46.4% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Jishnu rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,896
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,943
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.5%
Peak was 2010 (11)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,298
2010

Spellings of Jishnu

Jishnu is not the most common spelling — Vishnu is, with 91.0% against Jishnu's 9.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jishnu is used

Across 1910–2025, Jishnu was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 3,486,540 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jishnu has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jishnu around the world

Where Jishnu ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Jishnu by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,278
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,298
2010
Peak year
2010
11 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
112
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jishnu

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JissieJisaiahVishnuJisiahSahishnu

Sibling names for Jishnu

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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