Krishna
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births · #2,108 for boys in 2025, 69 births
Given to boys 55.6% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2004 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,385since 1957
Krishna over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 | #2,108 | 69 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #2,393 | 58 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #2,510 | 53 |
| 2022 | #6,464 | 18 | #2,517 | 54 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #2,505 | 51 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #2,656 | 48 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #1,918 | 75 |
| 2016 | #5,445 | 24 | #1,975 | 73 |
| 2015 | #5,127 | 26 | #2,068 | 68 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 | #2,082 | 67 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | #2,090 | 64 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 | #1,849 | 79 |
| 2011 | #4,681 | 30 | #1,988 | 69 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #2,057 | 66 |
| 2009 | #5,378 | 26 | #1,925 | 74 |
| 2008 | #4,089 | 38 | #2,001 | 70 |
| 2007 | #4,050 | 38 | #1,741 | 85 |
| 2006 | #4,576 | 31 | #1,893 | 71 |
| 2005 | #3,317 | 46 | #2,081 | 59 |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 | #1,653 | 78 |
| 2003 | #3,532 | 40 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | #2,046 | 53 |
| 2001 | #3,631 | 36 | #1,912 | 57 |
| 2000 | #3,271 | 41 | #2,256 | 43 |
| 1999 | #2,567 | 55 | #1,932 | 50 |
| 1998 | #2,530 | 54 | #1,899 | 51 |
| 1997 | #2,695 | 46 | #1,933 | 47 |
| 1996 | #2,558 | 49 | #2,483 | 31 |
| 1995 | #2,932 | 40 | #2,400 | 32 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1993 | #3,052 | 38 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #3,036 | 38 | #2,362 | 31 |
| 1991 | #2,420 | 52 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 | #2,488 | 27 |
| 1989 | #2,986 | 36 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #2,723 | 36 | #3,072 | 16 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 | #2,684 | 19 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #3,144 | 27 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #3,071 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 | #2,898 | 15 |
| 1980 | #2,940 | 30 | #3,615 | 11 |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | #3,009 | 26 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #2,606 | 32 | #2,665 | 16 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #2,169 | 39 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #1,848 | 47 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #1,832 | 46 | #2,606 | 14 |
| 1972 | #1,749 | 50 | #2,158 | 18 |
| 1971 | #1,528 | 65 | #1,705 | 27 |
| 1970 | #2,203 | 36 | #2,399 | 15 |
| 1969 | #2,585 | 26 | #3,062 | 9 |
| 1968 | #2,969 | 19 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | #2,611 | 10 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 | #3,249 | 7 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | #3,537 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #4,437 | 9 | #3,665 | 6 |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
| 1957 | — | #3,993 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1957
The first year at least five boys were named Krishna! It came in at #3,993, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1959, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 285 spots since 2024 (#2,393 → #2,108)
- 397 spots since 2020 (#2,505 → #2,108)
- 40 spots since 2015 (#2,068 → #2,108)
Rise & fade · boys
47 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 2004 at #1,653 (78 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 24,012
- Highest: 1 in 24,012 boys born in 2012 were named Krishna (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,653 in 2004, was only 1 in 25,448 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 28.2% of all boys named Krishna (673) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2000
- Mostly girls until 1999, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,993 (1957) | #3,993 |
| 1960s | 53 | #2,611 (1967) | #3,275 |
| 1970s | 162 | #1,705 (1971) | #2,601 |
| 1980s | 152 | #2,613 (1984) | #3,143 |
| 1990s | 346 | #1,899 (1998) | #2,367 |
| 2000s | 655 | #1,653 (2004) | #1,932 |
| 2010s | 673 | #1,849 (2012) | #2,085 |
| 2020s | 339 | #2,108 (2025) | #2,416 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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