Mukesh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: of uncertain origin, probably from an epithet of Shiva, ‘conqueror of the wild boar demon Muka’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mjuks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mukesh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In India it is the 35th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5Kas Mike
- NPNepal≈1 in 740
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mukesh itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #501 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 740 (inferred from the name graph)
228,046 named Mike, 2020
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)
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: of uncertain origin, probably from an epithet of Shiva, ‘conqueror of the wild boar demon Muka’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mukesh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 228,046as Mike | 1 in 1.5K | 227K | Mukesh | 296 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 740 | 1 | Mukesh | 57 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mukesh | 23 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Mukesh | 47 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,330as Mike | 1 in 49K | 4.7K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 4,246as Mike | 1 in 1.4K | 4.2K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,801as Mike | 1 in 6K | 2.8K | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 159 | 1 in 4.7K | 159 | — | — |
| IN India | #35 | — | — | 1.2K | Mukesh | 290 |
228,046 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling mike. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INEC — civil registry names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mukesh Eswaranb. 1950CAeconomist (University of British Columbia)
- Mukesh Ambanib. 1957INIndian businessman
- Mukesh Agnihotrib. 1962INIndian politician
- Mukesh Gadhvib. 1963INIndian politician
- Mukesh Rajputb. 1968INIndian politician
- Mukesh Kumar Chawlab. 1974PKpolitician in Pakistan
- Mukesh Sharmab. 1981INIndian politician
- Mukesh Chandrakarb. 1992INIndian journalist (1993 – 2025)
- Mukesh Palb. 1999NPNepalese athletics competitor
- Mukesh Kumar AhlawatINIndian politician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mukesh mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: of uncertain origin, probably from an epithet of Shiva, ‘conqueror of the wild boar demon Muka’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Mukesh?
- A machine transcription gives /mjuks/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mukesh a male or female name?
- Mukesh 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 are other forms of the name Mukesh?
- In the etymology graph, Mukesha is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mukesh have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 228 thousand people named Mike, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mukesh?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 159 people named Mukesh in 2025, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Mukesh compared with other names?
- In India, Mukesh is the 35th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mukeshThe 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, “Mukesh” — the 35th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.