Krishna
Krishna means (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon.
Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit-Telugu |
| Language | Telugu |
| Starts with | K |
Classical Sanskrit origin
कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa): (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon.
Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.
Traditional associations
In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.
- Rashi: Simha
- Nakshatra: Rohini
- More names starting with K
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “(with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Lav — a minute division of time, the 60th of a twinkling, half a second, a moment (accord. to others 1/4000 or 1/5400 or 1/20250 of a Muhūrta)
- Ardh — a half, the half
- Tithi — Lunar day
- Chandran — Moon, lunar one, the glowing one
- Chanpreet — Love of the moon, lunar devotion
- Chanderpreet — Love of the moon, lunar devotion
More boys' names of Sanskrit-Telugu origin
Other names under Simha rashi
- Lavanya — beauty, loveliness
- Surya — the wife of the god
- Lakshay — Target, aim, goal
- Harshil — Joyful, happy
- Misha — Sweet like nectar, joyful
- Harshitha — Happy, joyful, delighted
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Simha names.
Where this comes from
Krishna's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.