Ñaresh

given name · Latin script

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

Ñaresh is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 96th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘ruler of men’.

  • INIndia≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GYGuyana1 in 1.3K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 18K

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.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200,000 people, est.

#831 (measured from records)

of 15M given names, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
288 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

India, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ÑareshLatin(measured from records)
নরেশBengali(measured from records)
นาเรชThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Naresh in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia 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: ‘ruler of men’.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Ñaresh 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.

Where Ñaresh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#96≈1,200,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K938Naresh285
PK Pakistan—≈4,000 est.≈1 in 63K—Naresh44
ID Indonesia—≈3,900 est.≈1 in 72K—Naresh44
US United States—2,5091 in 133K2.4KNaresh288
MY Malaysia—≈2,000 est.≈1 in 18K—Naresh48
GY Guyana#835661 in 1.3K566Naresh7
SG Singapore#764≈270 est.≈1 in 22K—Naresh54
JM Jamaica#905≈82 est.≈1 in 35K—Naresh5

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ñaresh under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ñaresh mean, and where does it come from?
Sanskrit: ‘ruler of men’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
Is Ñaresh a male or female name?
Ñaresh 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 Ñaresh have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 million people named Ñaresh in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naresh.
How common is the name Ñaresh?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,509 people named Ñaresh in 2020, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
How common is Ñaresh compared with other names?
In India, Ñaresh is the 96th most common given name of 3,760,348 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, “Ñaresh” — the 96th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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