Kishore as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Kishore

What is the meaning of the name Kishore ?

The baby name Kishore is a boy name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced kih-SHOHR.

Kishore is Sanskrit in Origin.

Kishore is an English spelling of Sanskrit kiśora (किशोर), a masculine noun and adjective in Classical Sanskrit. Its literal sense is young, juvenile, or adolescent; in lexical use it can also describe a young animal, especially a foal. The form belongs to Indo-Aryan vocabulary rather than to Sanskrit kumāra, a separate word for boy or prince. The Hindi and Bengali name preserves the long o of kiśora while dropping the final Sanskrit vowel in ordinary modern pronunciation.

As a given name, Kishore is found chiefly in North and East Indian languages, with Kishor a common shorter romanization and Kiśora a scholarly transliteration. Hindu devotional usage links the word with youthful Krishna, especially in compounds and epithets such as Kishorilal, though the name is not confined to explicitly religious contexts. Public recognition in modern India was reinforced by the singer and actor Kishore Kumar, born Abhas Kumar Ganguly in Bengal. It remains much more familiar in India and the diaspora than in English-speaking naming statistics.