Rakesh

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Rakesh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘ruler of the day of the full-moon’, a byname of Shiva.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 603◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 29K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 33K

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

≈6.0K ●

across 8 countries

#460 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
311 ●

1.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

RakeshLatin · Hindi●5M records
রাকেশBengali · Bangla●3.4K records
ราเกซThai · Thai●68 records
రకషTelugu · 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: ‘ruler of the day of the full-moon’, a byname of Shiva. Ram <¢ North Indian variant of RAMA.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Where in the world●

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

Where Rakesh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#315,394,1051.6M rec.—1.5KRakesh296
GB United Kingdom—6,2812.8K rec.—listedRakesh130
US United States—4,86932K rec.1 in 68K4.9KRakesh311
MY Malaysia—2,2181K rec.——Rakesh41
CA Canada—1,4811.4K rec.—5Rakesh82
ID Indonesia—997919 rec.——Rakesh51
FR France—786572 rec.——Rakesh94
ZA South Africa—768726 rec.——Rakesh41
SG Singapore#951493522 rec.——Rakesh61
BD Bangladesh—386301 rec.——Rakesh41
TH Thailand—351233 rec.——Rakesh38
NP Nepal—3441.1K rec.—1Rakesh53

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

Languages●

  • Hindi5M80%
  • 760K12%
  • English121K2%
  • Bangla74K1%
  • Urdu48K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi4,985,03980%
760,03712%
English121,1882%
Bangla73,7841%
Urdu47,5091%

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◐

Rakesh is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name152K records spelled Rakesh28 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ra'Kesh, Rãkéśh, Rãkèsh, Ŕaķesh, Řàkéśh

  • Russian given name4.8K records spelled Rakesh28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, United States, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Ракеш, Rakes, Řãkěšh, Řăķèšh, Řăķĕšh

  • Korean given name568 records spelled Rakesh3 spellings in the group

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

  • a separate given name303 records spelled Rakesh4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Råkësh, Rakèsh, Rákêsh

32 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●

020K40K60K19001920194019601980200049K · 1984

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Rakesh in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189941
19002
19015
19111
19121
19132
19153
191611
191718
191821
191930
1920106
192137
192255
1923173
192466
192537
192619
192713
192816
192922
193016
193120
193231
193320
193424
193530
193629
193726
193845
193942
194053
194145
194281
194383
1944116
1945148
1946176
1947246
1948270
1949414
1950475
1951646
1952958
1953929
19541,521
19551,548
19562,029
19572,684
19583,089
19594,171
19604,300
19614,595
19626,775
19636,045
19648,809
19658,068
196610,501
196711,603
196811,843
196913,481
197016,376
197116,381
197220,473
197321,288
197422,144
197524,255
197629,166
197726,645
197828,493
197928,926
198028,801
198135,843
198244,831
198347,245
198448,761
198547,708
198639,485
198747,189
198844,554
198943,097
199043,954
199144,981
199247,723
199347,867
199443,225
199534,754
199620,271
199717,981
199813,329
19991,029
200029
200121
20029
20034
20051
20063
200766
20082,447
20093
20101,426
201138
201256
2013145
20147,368
20151,275
20162
201741

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 108 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●

1940196019802000Rakesh Mohan, b. 1948Rakesh Roshan, b. 1949Rakesh Sharma, b. 1949Rakesh Jain, b. 1950Rakesh Pandey, b. 1955Rakesh Bedi, b. 1956Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, b. 1960Rakesh Jhaveri, b. 1966Rakesh Khurana, b. 1967Rakesh Kumar, 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 42 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Rakesh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198449K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199348K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199248K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198548K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198347K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198747K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199145K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198245K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198845K—
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—31K#189
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.9K#3,964
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.5K#4,029

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 · 320 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rakesh?
We estimate roughly 6.0 thousand people bear Rakesh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Rakesh have the most bearers?
Rakesh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled rakesh.
How common is Rakesh compared with other names?
In India, Rakesh is the 31st most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Rakesh a male or female name?
Rakesh 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 Rakesh mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘ruler of the day of the full-moon’, a byname of Shiva.
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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, “Rakesh” — the 31st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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