as a Last Name
- 1,155
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Krishnamurthy
Meaning & Origins
Indian (southern states): Hindu name from Sanskrit krṣṇamūrti meaning ‘manifestation of the god Krishna’, from krisna ‘black’ (epithet of an incarnation of the god Vishnu) + murti ‘image’, ‘manifestation’. It is only a given name in India, but has become a family name in the U.S. among South Indians.
| 23,483rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,155
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Krishnamurthy per capita
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