Given name · also Bengali
Jishnu
Jishnu is a masculine given name from Bengali, ultimately from Malayalam.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Jishnu comes from Bengali, and ultimately from Malayalam.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
A transliteration of Bengali জিষ্ণু, a transliteration of Malayalam ജിഷ്ണു.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jishnu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 112
- 112 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,282 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,282 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 2010.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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