Krishna
From the Sanskrit kṛṣṇa, "black" or "dark", the colour of a storm sky. It sits outside the usual stock of Polish names, and fewer than 300 people in the country carry it, most of them men.
Krishna Pronunciation
What Krishna means
Where Krishna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Krishna comes from the Sanskrit kṛṣṇa, a word that means black or dark. The colour it names is the deep blue-black of a storm sky, and in Polish the sense arrives as czarny, ciemny. The origin sits outside the usual European stock of Polish names, which makes it stand apart on any Polish list.
In India the name has held religious weight for centuries, attached to one of the most honoured figures in Hindu belief. A Polish child called Krishna inherits none of that by default. The name arrives with its Sanskrit root still legible to anyone who looks it up.
Picture the name read out from a school register in Kraków, one syllable heavier than the Antonis and Zuzannas around it. It holds. The dark it points to is pigment rather than gloom, kṛṣṇa, black.
How many people are named Krishna
1 in 78768 men in Poland is named Krishna. 296 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1756 among male names.
Krishna as a middle name
Krishna is a first name for 296 men in Poland and a middle name for another 155, a 66/34 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 561st, between Izaak (155) and Kristian (154).
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#559 Gerald156
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#560 Izaak155
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#561 Krishna155
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#562 Kristian154
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#563 Philipp153