Ràkesh
given name · Latin script
Ràkesh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘ruler of the day of the full-moon’, a byname of Shiva. Ram <¢ North Indian variant of RAMA.
- INIndia≈1 in 580(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 2.2K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #453 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 342 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 582 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rakesh in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 4 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 the day of the full-moon’, a byname of Shiva. Ram <¢ North Indian variant of RAMA.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ràkesh 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 | #26 | ≈2,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 582 | 1.5K | Rakesh | 327 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Rakesh | 54 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Rakesh | 45 |
| US United States | — | 4,920 | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Rakesh | 342 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Rakesh | 44 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Rakesh | 43 |
| GY Guyana | — | 335 | 1 in 2.2K | 335 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Rakesh | 63 |
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ràkesh mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘ruler of the day of the full-moon’, a byname of Shiva. Ram <¢ North Indian variant of RAMA. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Ràkesh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 million people named Ràkesh in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rakesh.
- How common is the name Ràkesh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,920 people named Ràkesh in 2020, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Ràkesh compared with other names?
- In India, Ràkesh is the 26th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%A0keshThe 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, “Ràkesh” — the 26th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.