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Kishore

Boys' name

A colt; a youth, lad

Kishore has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 1990. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1990, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Kishore, 2010

1 in 739,000

Kishore over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kishore: meaning, origin, and history

A colt; a youth, lad

Sanskrit

What Kishore means

Kishore means “a colt; a youth, lad”, associated with kiśora.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit किशोर (kiśora, “a colt; a youth, lad”).

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Kishore is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Kishore comes through Sanskrit किशोर.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 30 boys were recorded with the name Kishore between 1990 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1990; its best national rank was #8,860 in 1990.

How common is Kishore?

Kishore had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 739,000
5 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 384,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
512,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kishore 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 2010 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 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kishore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kishores were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kishore was born before 2001 — so the typical Kishore is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
30
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Kishore 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1990 (5)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,860
1990

Kishore around the world

Where Kishore 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
    2006–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007

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

Kishore by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,860
1990
Peak year
1990
5 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kishore

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

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Sibling names for Kishore

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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