Kesh
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kesh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 415K(measured from records)
- MUMauritius≈1 in 18K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 96K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
3,197 people
Highest-authority source
Mauritius, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kesh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 3,197 | 1 in 415K | 3.2K | Kesh | 76 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Kesh | 7 |
| MA Morocco | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Kesh | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 783K | — | Kesh | 3 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Kesh | 73 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 284K | — | Kesh | 8 |
| MU Mauritius | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Kesh | 3 |
3,197 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kesh is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The practice of allowing one's hair to grow naturally, one of the five Ks.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, second-person singular present subjunctive of kam
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-fin, creel
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kesh Naidoo-Raufb. 1985NZNational Party candidate in 2023 New Zealand general election
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3.2K | #2,171 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 484 | #1,234 |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kesh?
- A machine transcription gives /kɪʃ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Kesh have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Kesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kesh.
- How common is the name Kesh?
- In India, the national register counted 3,197 people named Kesh, about 1 in 415 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/keshThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kesh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.