Mukesh

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Mukesh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: of uncertain origin, probably from an epithet of Shiva, ‘conqueror of the wild boar demon Muka’.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 624◐
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 56K

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

≈251K ●

across 14 countries

#478 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
266 ●

1.3M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.4K ◐

Denmark

Spellings & scripts●

MukeshLatin · Hindi●5M records
মুকেশBengali · Bangla●610 records
มิเกThai · Thai●35 records
무케시Hangul · Korean●0 records
ମକେଶOdia · Odia●0 records

Locally spelled Mike in LA Laos.

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: of uncertain origin, probably from an epithet of Shiva, ‘conqueror of the wild boar demon Muka’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Mukesh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#345,218,1601.3M rec.—1.2KMukesh266
US United States—227,449△15K rec.1 in 1.5K227KMukesh266
FR France—8,7300 rec.1 in 7.8K8.7K—1
BR Brazil—4,330—1 in 49K4.7K——
DK Denmark—4,246—1 in 1.4K4.2K——
GB United Kingdom—3,4011.3K rec.—listedMukesh102
EC Ecuador—2,801△5 rec.1 in 6K2.8K—1
PK Pakistan—2,061120 rec.——Mukesh43
SE Sweden—1,205△24 rec.1 in 8.5K1.2K—13
MY Malaysia—1,170556 rec.——Mukesh29
LA Laos#653930156 rec.——Mike20
CA Canada—685643 rec.—4Mukesh71

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

Languages●

  • Hindi5M85%
  • 544K9%
  • English61K1%
  • Bangla52K1%
  • Urdu36K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi5,016,91585%
544,1759%
English60,6241%
Bangla51,7461%
Urdu36,4711%

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◐

Mukesh is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name77K records spelled Mukesh16 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mükesh, Mukèśh, Múkésh, Műķęşh, Mukésh

  • Arabic given name17K records spelled Mukesh7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew

    Also written מוקש, Mukash, Mokesh, ሙከሽ

  • Spanish given name11K records spelled Mukesh8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, France, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Mûķêšh

  • Russian given name3.7K records spelled Mukesh18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Мукеш, Můkěšh, Mükésh, Mukệšh

  • Norwegian given name751 records spelled Mukesh6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Norway, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Múkësh

30 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.

Over time●

020K40K60K19001950200056K · 1992

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Mukesh in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1893–2017
Yearrecords
18931
189935
19007
19013
19111
19132
19142
19151
191617
191710
191825
191934
1920173
192149
1922106
1923331
192492
192566
192622
192718
192814
192932
193013
193112
193221
193314
193420
193519
193621
193725
193838
193938
194029
194134
194244
194349
194472
194564
194667
1947109
1948109
1949127
1950155
1951214
1952293
1953277
1954411
1955477
1956626
1957801
1958923
19591,325
19601,441
19611,766
19622,594
19632,667
19643,708
19653,997
19665,258
19676,330
19687,279
19698,645
197010,620
197111,651
197215,023
197315,687
197417,695
197518,644
197623,339
197722,699
197826,388
197929,033
198027,631
198139,374
198250,109
198351,729
198453,519
198552,865
198642,723
198755,452
198852,430
198951,722
199052,475
199153,538
199256,050
199355,311
199449,242
199539,181
199623,325
199721,253
199815,461
19991,116
200033
200124
200213
20036
20051
20064
200727
20083,620
20093
20101,803
201121
201236
2013155
201410,495
20151,446
20162
20178

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 109 years between 1893–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Mukesh Eswaran, b. 1950Mukesh Ambani, b. 1957Mukesh Agnihotri, b. 1962Mukesh Gadhvi, b. 1963Mukesh Rajput, b. 1968Mukesh Kumar Chawla, b. 1974Mukesh Sharma, b. 1981Mukesh Chandrakar, b. 1992Mukesh Pal, b. 1999

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 36 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Mukesh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199256K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198755K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199355K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199154K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198454K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198553K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199052K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198852K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198352K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198952K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198250K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199449K—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 267 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mukesh?
We estimate roughly 251 thousand people bear Mukesh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Mukesh have the most bearers?
Mukesh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mukesh.
How common is Mukesh compared with other names?
In India, Mukesh is the 34th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Mukesh a male or female name?
Mukesh 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 Mukesh mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: of uncertain origin, probably from an epithet of Shiva, ‘conqueror of the wild boar demon Muka’.
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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, “Mukesh” — the 34th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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