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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BALAKRISHNAN

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Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit balakr?s?na ‘child Krishna’ (from bala ‘child’ + kr?s?na, name of an incarnation of the god Vishnu, meaning ‘black’), + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. This is only a personal name in India, but has come to be used as a family name in the U.S.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)