Krishna

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Krishna: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Krishna: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #827 in 2005, and it stood at #1,859 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
56times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#827highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1222
1997	#1365
1998	#955
1999	#1675
2000	#1995
2001	#1617
2002	#1530
2003	#1843
2004	#2802
2005	#1589
2006	#1983
2007	#1854
2008	#1914
2009	#2326
2010	#1901
2011	#2432
2012	#3285
2013	#2649
2014	#3514
2015	#2705
2016	#3609
2017	#5765
2019	#4686
2021	#3519
2022	#3970
2023	#4709
2024	#4843

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1222 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #827 among boys in England and Wales, in 2005 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Krishna appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 418 births with the name.

Krishna across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Krishna's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#827 (2005)	#1859 (2024)	29 of 29	418 (1996–2024)	28 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#1222 (1996)	#955 (1998)	#4843 (2024)	27 of 29	255 (1996–2024)	22 (1998)

Krishna by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Krishna in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	32	4 of 10	8
2000s	163	10 of 10	16
2010sbusiest	174	10 of 10	17
2020s	49	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 17 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Krishna appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #827 in England and Wales in 2005.

Krishna's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4843	4	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1859	13	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3970	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3519	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2301	9	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3334	5	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2266	9	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1455	17	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1339	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1187	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1380	18	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1370	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1183	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1398	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1901	14	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1551	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1133	22	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1914	13	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1242	19	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1854	13	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1079	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1983	11	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1127	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#827	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2802	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1160	16	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1617	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1995	8	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1241	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1675	10	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1199	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#955	22	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1365	13	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1222	15	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #827, first reached in 2005.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Krishika · #2253, 10y
Krishiv · #613, 20y
Krista · #522, 24y
Kristal · #529, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Waris · #826, 25y
Cedric · #825, 29y
Pollyanna · #825, 29y
Romany · #824, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Seerat · #826, 21y
Waris · #826, 25y
Aziz · #829, 30y
Cedric · #825, 29y

Krishna was ranked #827 in England and Wales · Boys in 2005. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Krishna and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Krishna without appearing here.

Krishna moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1859 and #5119.
Lene Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1995 and #1831 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1617 and #3998.
Geoffrey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2320 and #1879 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #1799 and #4107.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3519 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Krishna

Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3609 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2201.
Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2705 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Cecilie Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3970 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #2504.
Arlo Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3609 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #3583.

Moved the opposite way to Krishna

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Krishna went from #1222 to #4843 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Krishna went from #1168 to #1859 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Krishna went from #1168 to #1859 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Krishna went from #1168 to #1859 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.

Moved the same way as Krishna

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Krishna went from #1168 to #1859 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Krishna went from #1222 to #4843 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Krishna went from #1168 to #1859 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Krishna went from #1222 to #4843 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #827 in England and Wales in 2005. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Krishna

Krishna at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Krishna across 2 official records

Krishna by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Krishna appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Krishna

Krishna and the names beside it

Krishna moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Krishna

Moved the opposite way to Krishna

Moved the same way as Krishna

Krishna at a glance

Krishna across 2 official records

Krishna by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Krishna appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Krishna

Krishna and the names beside it

Krishna moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Krishna

Moved the opposite way to Krishna

Moved the same way as Krishna