Kishan
Kishan was given to 10 boys in 2025, #7,974 among boys’ names; 1,038 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Kishan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kishan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kishan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kishan is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
From Sanskrit किशन (kiśana).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kishan?
#7,974 among boys’ names, 2025
Kishan fell from #5,410 in 2015 to #7,974 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.9 to 5.9 per million.
68 babies in 1997, the peak
Kishan peaked in 1997, when 68 boys were given it, #1,526 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,974 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,685 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,295 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,309 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,826 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,575 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,185 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,924 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,264 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 17 | #5,410 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 14 | #6,172 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,094 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 19 | #4,951 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,757 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,371 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,215 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,379 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,582 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 28 | #3,650 | 13.6 |
| 2005 | 37 | #2,872 | 18.5 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,328 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 32 | #3,024 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,452 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 32 | #2,899 | 16.5 |
| 2000 | 52 | #1,981 | 26.5 |
| 1999 | 52 | #1,889 | 27.1 |
| 1998 | 53 | #1,859 | 27.7 |
| 1997 | 68 | #1,526 | 36.1 |
| 1996 | 64 | #1,560 | 33.8 |
| 1995 | 59 | #1,577 | 31.0 |
| 1994 | 38 | #2,147 | 19.7 |
| 1993 | 49 | #1,752 | 25.0 |
| 1992 | 40 | #1,985 | 20.0 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,367 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 22 | #2,911 | 10.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,166 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #5,018 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,224 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,678 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,294 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,335 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,582 | 2.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,068 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,828 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kishan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kishan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kishan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kishan, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,038 Americans ever recorded as Kishan. The median Kishan alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,702 people named Kishan (42 women and girls, 1,660 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 978 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 341 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 526 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 130 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kishan born?
The states with the most babies named Kishan are New Jersey, California and New York, with 77% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 132 | not ranked | 4.4× |
| California | 82 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 47 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 38 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Kishan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kishan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1973 it was given 4.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kishan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,782 babies since 1880, Kishan is the most given (58% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kishan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kishan and names like it
- Compare Kishan and KishonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKishan peaked in 1997.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kishan since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Kishan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Kishan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kishan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.