Kishan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɪʃən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kishan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 195K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 36Kas Kishen
- NPNepal≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kishan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kishan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Kishan | 41 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Kishan | 28 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Kishan | 18 |
| US United States | — | 1,702 | 1 in 195K | 1.7K | Kishan | 255 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Kishan | 22 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Kishan | 35 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 477 | 1 in 36K | 477 | Kishan | 39 |
| GY Guyana | #431 | 202 | 1 in 3.7K | 202 | Kishan | 2 |
| IN India | #332 | — | — | 6.3K | Kishan | 234 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kishan Chand Parwanib. 1939PKPakistani politician
- G. Kishan Reddyb. 1964INCENTRAL MINISTER - GOVT OF INDIA
- Kishan Ramsukulb. 1985SRSurinamese politician
- Kishan Shrikanthb. 1996INIndian actor
- Kishan DholakiaGBphysicist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 33K | #169 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,510 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 477 | #1,693 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 260 | #4,726 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 202 | #393 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 42 | #8,510 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kishan?
- A machine transcription gives /kɪʃən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kishan a male or female name?
- Kishan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Kishan?
- In the etymology graph, Krishna, Krisna and Kishen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kishan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Kishan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kishan.
- How common is the name Kishan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,702 people named Kishan in 2020, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
- How common is Kishan compared with other names?
- In India, Kishan is the 332nd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kishan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kishanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kishan” — the 332nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.