as a Last Name
- 2,979
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Krishnan
Meaning & Origins
Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit krṣṇa ‘black’ (see Krishna) + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. This is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a family name in the U.S.
| 10,699th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,979
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Krishnan per capita
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