Ganesha
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ganesha is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 90th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit गणेश (gaṇeśa).
- GYGuyana1 in 692◐
- INIndia1 in 1.1K
- SGSingapore1 in 6.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.6K ●
- #837 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 276 ●
- 1 in 692 ◐
across 8 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
1.6M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ganesh in IN India, US United States, BR Brazil and 25 more and คเนตร in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
From Sanskrit गणेश (gaṇeśa).
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #90 | 3,085,718 | 1.5M rec. | — | 7.6K | Ganesh | 276 |
| MY Malaysia | #571 | 8,814 | 6.2K rec. | — | — | Ganesh | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,492 | 3K rec. | — | listed | Ganesh | 85 |
| US United States | — | 2,961 | 44K rec. | 1 in 112K | 3K | Ganesh | 273 |
| AU Australia | — | 2,713 | 3.4K rec. | — | 1 | Ganesh | 109 |
| SG Singapore | #366 | 1,564 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Ganesh | 69 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,152 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Ganesh | 72 |
| GY Guyana | #16 | 1,084 | 1.7K rec. | 1 in 692 | 1.1K | Ganesh | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 977 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Ganesh | 51 |
| NP Nepal | — | 661 | 2.1K rec. | — | 2 | Ganesh | 81 |
| DE Germany | — | 538 | 617 rec. | — | — | Ganesh | 72 |
| JP Japan | — | 512 | 396 rec. | — | — | Ganesh | 43 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi36K52%
- 9.4K14%
- English6.4K9%
- Assamese4.7K7%
- Telugu4.7K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 36,025 | 52% |
| 9,404 | 14% | |
| English | 6,376 | 9% |
| Assamese | 4,708 | 7% |
| Telugu | 4,707 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ganesha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A Hindu god of intellect, wisdom, gates, and beginnings, son of Parvati and Shiva.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, alternative form of Ganexa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1905 | 1 |
| 1915 | 1 |
| 1916 | 1 |
| 1920 | 2 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1922 | 8 |
| 1923 | 2 |
| 1924 | 4 |
| 1925 | 4 |
| 1926 | 6 |
| 1927 | 14 |
| 1928 | 16 |
| 1929 | 16 |
| 1930 | 19 |
| 1931 | 16 |
| 1932 | 22 |
| 1933 | 21 |
| 1934 | 18 |
| 1935 | 33 |
| 1936 | 55 |
| 1937 | 32 |
| 1938 | 43 |
| 1939 | 40 |
| 1940 | 59 |
| 1941 | 61 |
| 1942 | 58 |
| 1943 | 63 |
| 1944 | 69 |
| 1945 | 82 |
| 1946 | 110 |
| 1947 | 69 |
| 1948 | 106 |
| 1949 | 95 |
| 1950 | 133 |
| 1951 | 156 |
| 1952 | 107 |
| 1953 | 146 |
| 1954 | 103 |
| 1955 | 161 |
| 1956 | 137 |
| 1957 | 123 |
| 1958 | 143 |
| 1959 | 136 |
| 1960 | 187 |
| 1961 | 197 |
| 1962 | 161 |
| 1963 | 159 |
| 1964 | 164 |
| 1965 | 205 |
| 1966 | 161 |
| 1967 | 180 |
| 1968 | 186 |
| 1969 | 179 |
| 1970 | 179 |
| 1971 | 201 |
| 1972 | 177 |
| 1973 | 144 |
| 1974 | 127 |
| 1975 | 111 |
| 1976 | 113 |
| 1977 | 89 |
| 1978 | 115 |
| 1979 | 104 |
| 1980 | 110 |
| 1981 | 77 |
| 1982 | 116 |
| 1983 | 89 |
| 1984 | 60 |
| 1985 | 65 |
| 1986 | 73 |
| 1987 | 65 |
| 1988 | 71 |
| 1989 | 68 |
| 1990 | 67 |
| 1991 | 54 |
| 1992 | 64 |
| 1993 | 65 |
| 1994 | 79 |
| 1995 | 72 |
| 1996 | 58 |
| 1997 | 82 |
| 1998 | 68 |
| 2007 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 85 years between 1905–2011. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ganesha Mungrahb. 2001MUbadminton player
- Orizae Ganesha Jofib. 2012IDbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 203 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ganesha?
- We estimate roughly 4.6 thousand people bear Ganesha (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ganesha have the most bearers?
- Ganesha is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ganesh.
- Where is Ganesha most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ganesha is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 692 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Ganesha compared with other names?
- In India, Ganesha is the 90th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Ganesha a male or female name?
- Ganesha is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ganesha mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit गणेश (gaṇeśa).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ganesha” — the 90th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.