Suresh

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Suresh is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 20th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘ruler of the gods’, sometimes the name of a distinct god, but more commonly an epithet of Indra, Shiva, or Vishnu.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 456◐
  • GYGuyana1 in 1.4K
  • SGSingapore1 in 2.8K

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

≈7.4K ●

across 8 countries

#324 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
338 ●

3.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.4K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

SureshLatin · Hindi●6M records
সুরেশBengali · Bangla●1.4K records
ᲡურეშGeorgian · Georgian●5 records
ସରେଶOdia · 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 the gods’, sometimes the name of a distinct god, but more commonly an epithet of Indra, Shiva, or 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 Suresh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#207,128,5532.9M rec.—12KSuresh295
MY Malaysia#34513,30711K rec.—866Suresh82
GB United Kingdom—10,1756.9K rec.—listedSuresh129
US United States—6,14795K rec.1 in 54K6.1KSuresh338
AU Australia—5,6387.2K rec.—1Suresh133
SG Singapore#1673,8926K rec.——Suresh84
CA Canada—2,8343.2K rec.—1Suresh107
ID Indonesia—1,7001.9K rec.——Suresh51
PK Pakistan—955124 rec.——Suresh38
DE Germany—8921.1K rec.——Suresh80
LK Sri Lanka#1677783.3K rec.——Suresh50
ZA South Africa—688978 rec.——Suresh28

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

Languages●

  • Hindi6M64%
  • 2.1M22%
  • English346K4%
  • Telugu217K2%
  • Assamese217K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi5,991,37064%
2,061,67222%
English345,6224%
Telugu217,1172%
Assamese217,0982%

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◐

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

  • a separate given name2.2M records spelled Suresh2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Süresh

  • Arabic given name34K records spelled Suresh3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written סורש

  • French given name5.1K records spelled Suresh3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Šüŕéšh

  • Russian given name5.1K records spelled Suresh37 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Czech

    Also written Суреш, Sures, Şureş, Šüřëšh, Šűřěšh

44 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●

Suresh 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, Sanskrit; ruler of the gods

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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●

010K20K30K40K19001950200032K · 1983

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Suresh in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1894–2017
Yearrecords
18941
18971
189928
19004
19011
19021
19091
19102
19111
19137
19144
19158
191613
191720
191836
191937
1920144
192142
192262
1923147
192479
192566
192643
192780
192885
1929123
193080
1931144
1932288
1933238
1934386
1935372
1936437
1937595
1938632
1939904
19401,086
19411,177
19421,653
19431,528
19442,209
19452,284
19462,691
19473,649
19483,183
19493,455
19504,693
19515,279
19527,185
19535,290
19548,433
19557,895
19569,490
195711,993
195812,616
195916,645
196014,518
196115,669
196222,542
196319,134
196424,351
196521,876
196625,706
196727,181
196825,605
196927,343
197029,176
197127,338
197231,364
197329,315
197428,199
197528,034
197630,811
197726,030
197826,782
197926,183
198023,752
198127,825
198231,262
198332,165
198429,070
198528,370
198624,753
198725,521
198823,640
198922,695
199022,022
199121,806
199222,123
199321,519
199419,873
199516,349
19968,990
19979,309
19986,837
1999240
200029
200113
20028
20032
20062
200736
20082,295
200913
2010903
2011700
2012549
2013371
20142,527
2015639
20164
201720

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 112 years between 1894–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Suresh Mehta, b. 1936Suresh Oberoi, b. 1946Suresh Prabhu, b. 1953Suresh Wadkar, b. 1954Suresh Gopi, b. 1959Suresh Krishna, b. 1959Suresh Menon, b. 1967Suresh Krishna, b. 1973Suresh Raina, b. 1986

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 50 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Suresh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—217K#10
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198332K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197231K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198231K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—14K#115
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—12K#879
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.1K#3,400
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.1K#10,003
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,789
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—866—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000678#32,094
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025532#168

Reference works 5

  • 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
  • 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 · 327 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suresh?
We estimate roughly 7.4 thousand people bear Suresh (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Suresh have the most bearers?
Suresh is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled suresh.
How common is Suresh compared with other names?
In India, Suresh is the 20th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Suresh a male or female name?
Suresh 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 Suresh mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘ruler of the gods’, sometimes the name of a distinct god, but more commonly an epithet of Indra, Shiva, or 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, “Suresh” — the 20th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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