Krishnan

Krishnan is the 6,103rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,388 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 55,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,388
Rank: 6,103rd
How common: 1 in 55,500
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Origin Tamil

Borrowed from Tamil கிருஷ்ணன்.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Krishnan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
White, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Krishnan

Ramesh Krishnan (born 1961)Indian tennis player
Ananda Krishnan (1938–2024)Malaysian businessman

People named Krishnan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Krishnan

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.