Rajesh

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Rajesh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘ruler of kings’, ‘emperor’.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 399◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 4K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 9.4K

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

≈9.8K ●

across 8 countries

#284 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
332 ●

2.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

RajeshLatin · Hindi●7.2M records
রাজেশBengali · Bangla●3.6K records
ราเชตThai · Thai●77 records
РајесCyrillic · Serbian●0 records
ରାଜେଶOdia · Odia●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: ‘ruler of kings’, ‘emperor’.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Rajesh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#128,159,5632.8M rec.—3.1KRajesh315
GB United Kingdom#86416,7579.7K rec.—4Rajesh130
US United States—8,528111K rec.1 in 39K8.5KRajesh332
AU Australia—7,2517.7K rec.—1Rajesh138
MY Malaysia#7326,9334.2K rec.——Rajesh45
CA Canada—4,1914.1K rec.—2Rajesh109
PK Pakistan#9482,987179 rec.——Rajesh36
SG Singapore#2382,6653.3K rec.——Rajesh83
ID Indonesia—1,9881.8K rec.——Rajesh56
ZA South Africa—1,8831.8K rec.——Rajesh45
FR France—1,303980 rec.—108Rajesh112
DE Germany—1,2921.3K rec.——Rajesh86

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

Languages●

  • Hindi7.2M79%
  • 911K10%
  • English259K3%
  • Telugu109K1%
  • Assamese109K1%
Show as table
Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi7,227,51379%
910,77510%
English259,0463%
Telugu108,6911%
Assamese108,6881%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name958K records spelled Rajesh3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Raj-Esh, Rājesh

  • Polish given name7.4K records spelled Rajesh32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Croatian

    Also written Раджеш, Radzhesh, Rãjêşh, Ŕàjêšh, Řájěšh

  • a separate given name461 records spelled Rajesh2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Ŕājěśh

  • ab given name308 records spelled Rajesh5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United Kingdom

    Also written Ràjëšh, Rajěsh, Rajèsh, Rãješh

  • Georgian given name156 records spelled Rajesh2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Georgia, United States

    Also written Რაჯეშ

33 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●

Rajesh 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 male given name from Sanskrit used in India.

    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●

020K40K60K80K19001920194019601980200070K · 1983

Show as table
Rajesh in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189946
19005
19014
19091
19112
19132
19147
19154
191617
191714
191853
191950
1920241
192164
192296
1923478
1924102
192597
192622
192720
192831
192927
193028
193125
193244
193345
193456
193554
193656
193777
193884
193998
1940103
1941101
1942149
1943151
1944219
1945210
1946265
1947325
1948334
1949475
1950488
1951567
1952932
1953727
19541,332
19551,185
19561,611
19572,084
19582,459
19593,814
19603,796
19614,561
19626,866
19636,870
196410,229
196510,205
196613,895
196716,024
196818,142
196922,299
197027,157
197129,261
197238,284
197340,182
197443,925
197546,284
197655,554
197746,783
197849,798
197950,802
198044,315
198156,095
198267,930
198369,861
198469,383
198566,355
198651,752
198760,854
198853,552
198950,484
199050,183
199150,853
199250,762
199349,679
199441,995
199533,466
199618,213
199716,858
199810,385
1999979
200048
200141
200218
20034
20041
20061
200757
20085,360
20096
20102,854
201158
2012104
2013442
201411,517
20151,975
201612
201732

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 109 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

194019601980Rajesh Khanna, b. 1942Rajesh Vivek, b. 1949Rajesh Roshan, b. 1955Rajesh Hamal, b. 1964Rajesh Khattar, b. 1966Rajesh Gopakumar, b. 1967Rajesh Joshi, b. 1970Rajesh Kava, b. 1979Rajesh Sharma, b. 1980

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 46 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Rajesh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—109K#38
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198370K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198469K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198268K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198566K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.5K#2,730
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—6.2K#429
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—3.1K#2,225
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.7K#16,265
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010805#29,366
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025346#282
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026319#940

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 · 344 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rajesh?
We estimate roughly 9.8 thousand people bear Rajesh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Rajesh have the most bearers?
Rajesh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rajesh.
How common is Rajesh compared with other names?
In India, Rajesh is the 12th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Rajesh a male or female name?
Rajesh 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 Rajesh mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘ruler of kings’, ‘emperor’.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rajesh

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.

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, “Rajesh” — the 12th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

See how Rajesh parses inside a full name →