Krish
Krish was given to 154 boys in 2025, #1,277 among boys’ names; 4,821 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,770 Americans named Krish and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Krish by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Krish mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Krish is “a male given name.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Krishna, from the South Asian Languages.”
Borrowed from Hindi कृष (kŕṣ), Derived from Hindi कृष्णा (kŕṣṇā).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Krish?
#1,277 among boys’ names, 2025
Krish fell from #1,048 in 2015 to #1,277 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 99.1 to 90.2 per million.
371 babies in 2006, the peak
Krish peaked in 2006, when 371 boys were given it, #633 among boys’ names. The 154 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 154 | #1,277 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 141 | #1,352 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,333 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 155 | #1,261 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 155 | #1,239 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,211 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 164 | #1,181 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 174 | #1,117 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 190 | #1,053 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 206 | #992 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 190 | #1,048 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 195 | #1,038 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 235 | #887 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 251 | #849 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 240 | #874 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 247 | #857 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 238 | #885 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 261 | #837 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 346 | #686 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 371 | #633 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 167 | #1,013 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,203 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,214 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 85 | #1,489 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,914 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,695 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,327 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,391 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,784 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,435 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,879 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,108 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Krish a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Krish has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Krish: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Krish, and how old are they?
4,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,821 Americans ever recorded as Krish. The median Krish alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 4,106 people named Krish (74 women and girls, 4,032 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,921 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,490 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,240 |
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 Krish born?
The states with the most babies named Krish are California, New York and Texas, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 32 | #791 | 1.3× |
| New York | 17 | #823 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 15 | #1,329 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 12 | #736 | 1.7× |
| Washington | 10 | #663 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #739 | 4.3× |
| Virginia | 8 | #843 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #668 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,749 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,458 | 1.3× |
Where Krish is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Krish is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 4.3 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 Krish 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,923 babies since 1880, Krish is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 154 of their 154 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Krish
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 Krish and names like it
- Compare Krish and KrrishBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKrish peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Krish since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Krish.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Krish alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.