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How popular is “Krishna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Krishna” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Krishna” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Krishna” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Krishna” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Krishna” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Krishna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Krishna” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1957 5 0.00000119 5 -100%
1958 5 0.00000121 5 100%
1959 5 0.000001203 5 100%
1960 15 0.000003611 9 6 20%
1961 10 0.000002414 5 5 0%
1962 5 0.000001239 5 100%
1965 12 0.00000331 6 6 0%
1966 12 0.000003453 5 7 -17%
1967 21 0.000006186 11 10 5%
1968 29 0.000008584 19 10 31%
1969 35 0.000010071 26 9 49%
1970 51 0.000014141 36 15 41%
1971 92 0.000026804 65 27 41%
1972 68 0.000021635 50 18 47%
1973 60 0.000019888 46 14 53%
1974 55 0.000018092 47 8 71%
1975 53 0.000017553 39 14 47%
1976 44 0.000014501 29 15 32%
1977 48 0.000015111 32 16 33%
1978 46 0.000014493 26 20 13%
1979 36 0.000010821 21 15 17%
1980 41 0.000011903 30 11 46%
1981 34 0.000009828 19 15 12%
1982 35 0.000009977 21 14 20%
1983 32 0.00000924 18 14 13%
1984 45 0.000012899 27 18 20%
1985 31 0.000008686 17 14 10%
1986 44 0.00001237 25 19 14%
1987 52 0.000014422 36 16 38%
1988 36 0.000009743 25 11 39%
1989 56 0.000014566 36 20 29%
1990 63 0.000015939 36 27 14%
1991 75 0.000019254 52 23 39%
1992 69 0.000017963 38 31 10%
1993 63 0.00001671 38 25 21%
1994 73 0.000019636 44 29 21%
1995 72 0.000019661 40 32 11%
1996 80 0.000021935 49 31 22%
1997 93 0.00002565 46 47 -1%
1998 105 0.000028547 54 51 3%
1999 105 0.000028425 55 50 5%
2000 84 0.000022223 41 43 -2%
2001 93 0.000024844 36 57 -23%
2002 104 0.00002782 51 53 -2%
2003 105 0.000027615 40 65 -24%
2004 116 0.000030359 38 78 -34%
2005 105 0.000027309 46 59 -12%
2006 102 0.000025782 31 71 -39%
2007 123 0.000030768 38 85 -38%
2008 108 0.000027476 38 70 -30%
2009 100 0.000026177 26 74 -48%
2010 91 0.000024623 25 66 -45%
2011 99 0.000027066 30 69 -39%
2012 106 0.000028983 27 79 -49%
2013 92 0.000025235 28 64 -39%
2014 93 0.000025092 26 67 -44%
2015 94 0.000025399 26 68 -45%
2016 97 0.00002644 24 73 -51%
2017 90 0.000025166 15 75 -67%
2018 84 0.000023891 20 64 -52%
2019 62 0.000017863 14 48 -55%
2020 59 0.000017662 8 51 -73%
2021 73 0.000021547 19 54 -48%
2022 72 0.000021282 18 54 -50%
2023 69 0.000020838 16 53 -54%
2024 74 0.000022232 16 58 -57%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Krishna:

  1. Krishina
  2. Krishiv
  3. Krishivreddy
  4. Krishma
  5. Krishn
  6. Krishna (this page)
  7. Krishnan
  8. Krishnav
  9. Krishon
  10. Krishona
  11. Krishonda