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Kishan

#7,974 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Krishna

Kishan has been given to 1,038 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,974 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Kishan, 2025

1 in 332,000

Kishan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kishan: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Krishna

Sanskrit

What Kishan means

Kishan is a variant of Krishna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kishan → Krishna → कृष्ण. The family’s meaning is “black”, recorded in Sanskrit with the source elements kr̥šnás.

Origin, language, and formation

Kishan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Kishan comes through Sanskrit किशन.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Krishna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,038 boys were recorded with the name Kishan between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,526 in 1997.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,826 in 2020 to #7,974 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,410 in 2015 to #7,974 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Kishan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,974
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kishan 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kishan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kishans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kishan was born before 1999 — so the typical Kishan is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,038
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (475).

Is Kishan 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
+711
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−148
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,564
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.7%
Peak was 1997 (68)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,526
1997

Spellings of Kishan

Kishan is not the most common spelling — Kieran is, with 19.4% against Kishan's 1.1%.

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 Kishan is used

Across 1910–2025, Kishan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 214,756 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Kishan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kishan around the world

Where Kishan 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
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–1994
    #375
    in 1994
  • France
    1992–2024
    #6,484
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1976–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Kishan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,974
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 148
Best rank ever
#1,526
1997
Peak year
1997
68 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,038
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Kishan

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

EythanEathanRayhanSubhanJathanDathanRoshanFarhanLoghanZephanEoghanAbrahanRishanJaythanSohanNeythanNeithanArshanEshanJahanSrihanNaythanKeithanNishan

Sibling names for Kishan

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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