Jishnu
- Gender
- Boy
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #10,690 for boys
Jishnu is a boys' name of Sanskrit origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,690th for boys in the US (6 babies).
What does Jishnu mean?
Sanskrit
A male given name from Sanskrit.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Jishnu a girl's or a boy's name?
Jishnu is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jishnu in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,690th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 280,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the US were named Jishnu, making it the 10,690th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2010, with 11 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the boys named Jishnu in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jishnu in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #10,690 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,081 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,655 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
Names like Jishnu
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aarav, Avyaan, Vihaan, Shivansh, Veer, Atharv, Viraj, Krishiv, Dhruv, Devansh, Dhruva, Aviraj
Names related to Jishnu
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Arya, Lila, Arjun, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Aadhya, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Veda, India
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jishnu: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jishnu, updated 20 October 2026.