Gànesh
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gànesh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 25th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘lord of the hosts’, a title of the god Shiva and the name of his eldest son, who has the head of an elephant and the body of a short fat imp with a huge belly.
- GYGuyana1 in 692(measured from records)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5.6K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 6.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #687 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 356 (inferred from the name graph)
≈85,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ganesh in US United States, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sanskrit: ‘lord of the hosts’, a title of the god Shiva and the name of his eldest son, who has the head of an elephant and the body of a short fat imp with a huge belly. Gauri ° Sanskrit: ‘white’, a byname of Shiva’s previously dark-skinned wife who, after being teased by Shiva, acquired a brilliant white complexion through medi- tation in the Himalayas.
Sources 4
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gànesh counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 356 | 2 | Ganesh | 81 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Ganesh | 56 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Ganesh | 24 |
| MY Malaysia | #562 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Ganesh | 71 |
| US United States | — | 2,974 | 1 in 112K | 3K | Ganesh | 307 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #689 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ganesh | 26 |
| SG Singapore | #485 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Ganesh | 72 |
| GY Guyana | #25 | 1,084 | 1 in 692 | 1.1K | Ganesh | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gànesh mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘lord of the hosts’, a title of the god Shiva and the name of his eldest son, who has the head of an elephant and the body of a short fat imp with a huge belly. Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and A concise dictionary of first names and 2 other sources.
- Is Gànesh a male or female name?
- Gànesh 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.
- In which country does Gànesh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Gànesh in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ganesh.
- How common is the name Gànesh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,974 people named Gànesh in 2020, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
- How common is Gànesh compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Gànesh is the 25th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Gànesh” — the 25th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.