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Balakrishnan Name Meaning

Indian (Kerala and Tamil Nadu): from a personal name derived from Sanskrit bālakrṣṇa ‘child Krishna’ (from bāla ‘child’ + krṣṇa ‘Krishna’ the name of an incarnation of the god Vishnu meaning ‘black’) + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. — Note: Since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames this name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


Similar surnames: Ramakrishnan, Radhakrishnan, Krishnan, Narasimhan, Krishna, Avakian

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Between 1987 and 2004, in the United States, Balakrishnan life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1999, and highest in 1998. The average life expectancy for Balakrishnan in 1987 was 58, and 68 in 2004.

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