What does the name Krishnappa mean?

Krishnappa means "Devotee of Krishna, the dark lord". It is a boy's name of Kannada origin.

Krishnappa

Krishnappa means Devotee of Krishna, the dark lord.

Gender	boy
Origin	Kannada
Language	Kannada
Starts with	K

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Devotee of Krishna, the dark lord”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Krish — Short form of Krishna, dark, attractive
Krishna — Dark, all attractive, Vishnu avatar
Layla — Night, dark beauty
Krushna — Lord Krishna, dark and beautiful
Kajal — Kohl, eye liner; dark and beautiful
Kannan — Krishna, the dark one, beloved cowherd

More boys' names of Kannada origin

Puneeth — Purified, holy, sacred
Manjunatha — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
Manjunath — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
Shivakumar — Son of Shiva, the young lord
Basavaraj — King among devotees of Basavanna
Guru — Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide

Where this comes from

Krishnappa has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.