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Krisna

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Form of Krishna

Krisna has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 1991, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% girls, 12% boys all-time.

Babies named Krisna, 2006

1 in 791,000

Krisna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Krisna over time

In 2006, Krisna went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19802006

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Krisna: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Krishna

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Krisna means

Krisna is a form of Krishna.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Krisna is used in Indonesian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈkris.na/ for Krisna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Krishna.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 94 girls were recorded with the name Krisna between 1980 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1991; its best national rank was #9,796 in 1991.

In the United States, 13 boys were recorded with the name Krisna between 2000 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2000; its best national rank was #8,722 in 2000.

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 Krisna?

Krisna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Krisna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Krisna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Krisnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Krisna was born before 1997 — so the typical Krisna is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
94
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2000s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (38).

Is Krisna 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (8)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,796
1991

Spellings of Krisna

Krisna is not the most common spelling — Kristina is, with 15.0% against Krisna's 0.01%.

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 Krisna is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Krisna 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. Krisna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Krisna around the world

Where Krisna 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.

  • South Australia
    1986–1986
    #667
    in 1986

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Krisna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,796
1991
Peak year
1991
8 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,722
2000
Peak year
2000
7 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Krisna

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

KridhaKrishviKrivaKrisleyKriyaKrithiKristlKripaKrimsonKritikaKrisanKrisieHosnaKrisyKrissiaKrinaKrisiKrithikaYasnaKritiKrissiKristellKristnKrizia

Sibling names for Krisna

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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