Mahesh

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mahesh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘great ruler’, a byname of Shiva; also the name of a Buddhist deity.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 753◐
  • INIndia1 in 800
  • SGSingapore1 in 11K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.2K ●

across 8 countries

#632 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
287 ●

1.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.1K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

MaheshLatin · Hindi●3.4M records
মহেশBengali · Bangla●1.1K records
มาเฮศThai · Thai●4 records
ମହେଶOdia · Odia●0 records
మహషTelugu · Telugu●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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●

Sanskrit: ‘great ruler’, a byname of Shiva; also the name of a Buddhist deity.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mahesh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#524,069,0521.3M rec.—2.7KMahesh287
GB United Kingdom—7,4184.9K rec.—listedMahesh114
US United States—4,38958K rec.1 in 76K4.4KMahesh282
AU Australia—4,3224.5K rec.—1Mahesh119
LK Sri Lanka#361,9016.5K rec.——Mahesh63
MY Malaysia—1,883962 rec.——Mahesh41
CA Canada—1,7551.8K rec.——Mahesh76
SG Singapore#5141,0121.3K rec.——Mahesh67
PK Pakistan—888110 rec.——Mahesh31
ID Indonesia—780786 rec.—listedMahesh42
FR France—693506 rec.—53Mahesh77
DE Germany—573562 rec.—1Mahesh62

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi3.4M66%
  • 1M20%
  • English210K4%
  • Telugu128K2%
  • Assamese128K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi3,414,73366%
1,010,79120%
English210,4494%
Telugu128,0432%
Assamese128,0372%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mahesh is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name1.1M records spelled Mahesh2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Pakistan

    Also written Mahésh

  • Arabic given name18K records spelled Mahesh5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

    Also written מהש

  • Russian given name5.0K records spelled Mahesh19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Махеш, Makhesh, Máhésh, Máhęšh, Màhèšh

  • Finnish given name2.5K records spelled Mahesh5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Mähêsh, Máhesh

  • Turkish given name1.3K records spelled Mahesh4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Máhêsh, Mähëśh

  • Malayalam given name962 records spelled Mahesh15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Malayalam, Tamil

    Also written மகேஷ், Mahes, മഹേഷ്, ಮಹೇಶ್, Mahēṣ

  • Korean given name684 records spelled Mahesh2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, South Korea, United Kingdom

    Also written 마헤쉬

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Mahesh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A title of the god Shiva.

    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●

010K20K30K19001920194019601980200022K · 1984

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Mahesh in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2016
Yearrecords
189921
19001
19021
19051
19081
19132
19149
19154
191614
191714
191819
191920
192084
192126
192245
1923109
192451
192554
192639
192756
192880
1929104
193069
1931134
1932196
1933203
1934277
1935260
1936288
1937418
1938448
1939557
1940628
1941711
1942950
1943894
19441,239
19451,187
19461,291
19471,755
19481,509
19491,750
19502,113
19512,356
19523,092
19532,350
19543,626
19553,393
19563,989
19575,107
19585,339
19596,882
19606,212
19616,776
19629,672
19638,356
196410,448
19659,636
196611,131
196712,216
196811,547
196912,680
197014,059
197113,758
197215,828
197314,701
197414,519
197515,126
197617,142
197715,656
197816,275
197916,247
198014,631
198117,348
198220,906
198320,811
198421,714
198520,506
198618,121
198719,586
198818,533
198917,738
199017,671
199117,706
199218,141
199317,827
199416,028
199513,873
19967,292
19977,147
19985,140
1999197
200013
20014
20023
20041
20051
200710
20081,475
20099
2010664
2011235
2012207
2013145
20142,191
2015597
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 107 years between 1899–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Mahesh Kumar Kanodia, b. 1939Mahesh Bhatt, b. 1948Mahesh Manjrekar, b. 1958Mahesh Dattani, b. 1958Mahesh Sharma, b. 1959Mahesh Anand, b. 1961Mahesh Thakur, b. 1969Mahesh Bhupathi, b. 1974Mahesh Babu, b. 1975Mahesh Jadu, b. 1982

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 49 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Mahesh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—128K#23
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198422K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198221K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198321K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198521K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—7.1K#340
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.4K#4,306
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.7K#2,514
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020898#28,289
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010488#44,109
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025243#358
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000204#85,297

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 313 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mahesh?
We estimate roughly 5.2 thousand people bear Mahesh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Mahesh have the most bearers?
Mahesh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mahesh.
How common is Mahesh compared with other names?
In India, Mahesh is the 52nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Mahesh a male or female name?
Mahesh 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 Mahesh mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘great ruler’, a byname of Shiva; also the name of a Buddhist deity.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Mahesh” — the 52nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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