Last name origin & meaning: Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit
bālakṛṣna ‘child Krishna’ (from bāla ‘child’
+ kṛṣna, 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.
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