Ramesh

given name · Assamese · Latin script

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

Ramesh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 2nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Assamese and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: from ‘rest’, ‘repose’, ‘night’, a byname of Lakshmi + ‘lord’, hence meaning ‘lord of Lakshmi’, a byname of Vishnu.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 83◐
  • GYGuyana1 in 897
  • SGSingapore1 in 3.3K

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

≈8.6K ●

across 9 countries

#35 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
321 ●

3.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 897 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

RameshLatin · Assamese●32M records
রমেশBengali · Bangla●3K records
ราเมศThai · Thai●1.6K records
ᲠამეშGeorgian · Georgian●8 records
ରମେଶOdia · Odia●2 records
రమేషTelugu · Telugu●1 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ราเมศ in TH Thailand and Ramesha in FI Finland.

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: from ‘rest’, ‘repose’, ‘night’, a byname of Lakshmi + ‘lord’, hence meaning ‘lord of Lakshmi’, a byname of Vishnu.

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 Ramesh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#239,209,8363M rec.—5.2KRamesh279
MY Malaysia#35513,0549.8K rec.—1.1KRamesh77
GB United Kingdom—11,3757.7K rec.—listedRamesh127
PK Pakistan#4529,495189 rec.——Ramesh37
US United States—6,921109K rec.1 in 48K6.9KRamesh321
AU Australia—5,0776.3K rec.—1Ramesh117
CA Canada—3,2663.7K rec.—1Ramesh90
SG Singapore#1933,2585.1K rec.——Ramesh83
TH Thailand—3,1832.3K rec.—#541,956ราเมศ59
ID Indonesia—1,2961.5K rec.—listedRamesh40
ZA South Africa—1,0801.1K rec.——Ramesh33
DE Germany—9841.2K rec.—listedRamesh72

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

Languages●

  • Assamese32M77%
  • Hindi6.1M15%
  • 2M5%
  • English505K1%
  • Telugu364K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Assamese31,763,85077%
Hindi6,126,62215%
1,973,9795%
English505,2941%
Telugu363,8851%

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◐

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

  • Arabic given name35K records spelled Ramesh3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written ראמש

  • Russian given name5.2K records spelled Ramesh18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Czech

    Also written Рамеш, Рамешь, Řåmêšh, Řâmēšh, Ŕámëśh

  • Croatian given name1.5K records spelled Ramesh18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Рамеш, Rames, Rameš, Rameş

  • Korean given name1.1K records spelled Ramesh2 spellings in the group

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

45 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●

Ramesh 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, Sanskrit; great judge or adviser

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  • In English, A male given name from Sanskrit used in Nepal and 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●

010K20K30K40K19001920194019601980200037K · 1983

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Ramesh in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189928
19004
190111
19041
19062
19071
19091
19101
19111
19137
19141
19152
191611
191711
191818
191930
1920133
192142
192250
1923151
192477
192550
192639
192763
192875
1929119
193084
1931122
1932231
1933199
1934378
1935327
1936449
1937516
1938595
1939815
1940913
19411,085
19421,510
19431,476
19442,331
19452,060
19462,680
19473,169
19483,354
19494,447
19504,320
19515,118
19527,022
19535,645
19548,631
19557,625
19569,840
195711,591
195812,106
195915,807
196014,107
196115,867
196220,978
196317,954
196423,060
196521,050
196625,263
196726,077
196824,671
196927,220
197028,276
197128,415
197231,646
197330,767
197428,604
197528,965
197632,612
197728,540
197828,918
197928,772
198026,632
198131,608
198236,092
198336,926
198434,277
198531,871
198626,057
198729,372
198826,405
198924,766
199023,852
199123,946
199224,081
199323,380
199419,423
199515,503
19968,447
19978,298
19985,932
1999392
200026
200110
20029
20033
200769
20082,323
200910
20101,133
2011221
2012203
2013221
20144,264
2015796
20168
201733

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 111 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●

1850190019502000Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, b. 1888Ramesh Balsekar, b. 1917Ramesh Sippy, b. 1947जिष्णू देव वर्मा, b. 1947Ramesh Khanna, b. 1954Prakash Padukone, b. 1955Ramesh Krishnan, b. 1961Ghattamaneni Ramesh Babu, b. 1965Ramesh Raskar, b. 1970Ramesh Ponnuru, b. 1974

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 60 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Ramesh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—364K#2
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—18K#79
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.9K#3,107
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—5.2K#1,516
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.2K#9,672
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,108
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—1.1K—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025836#84
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000792#28,375
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026325#929
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—283#962
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—234#4,271

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 339 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ramesh?
We estimate roughly 8.6 thousand people bear Ramesh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Ramesh have the most bearers?
Ramesh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ramesh.
How common is Ramesh compared with other names?
In India, Ramesh is the 2nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Ramesh a male or female name?
Ramesh 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 Ramesh mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: from ‘rest’, ‘repose’, ‘night’, a byname of Lakshmi + ‘lord’, hence meaning ‘lord of Lakshmi’, a byname of Vishnu.
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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, “Ramesh” — the 2nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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