Girish
given name · Latin script
Meaning: name of a god
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɹɪʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Girish is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 86K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 167K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 6.1K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
name of a god
Sources 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Where in the world(measured from records)
Girish 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Girish | 25 |
| AO Angola | #742 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Girish | 4 |
| US United States | — | 1,990 | 1 in 167K | 2K | Girish | 295 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #432 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Girish | 76 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Girish | 93 |
| OM Oman | #413 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Girish | 14 |
| KW Kuwait | #905 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Girish | 12 |
| BH Bahrain | #379 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Girish | 9 |
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. 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)
- Girish Chandra Saxenab. 1928INIndian politician (1928-2017)
- Girish Saran Agarwalb. 1946USIndian American quantum optics physicist
- Girish Kasaravallib. 1950INIndian film director
- Girish Sahnib. 1956INIndian researcher
- Girish Mahajanb. 1960INIndian politician
- Girish Bapatb. 1963INIndian politician
- Girish Sonib. 1965INIndian politician
- Girish Yadavb. 2000INIndian politician
- Girish C. Shuklab. 2000GBresearcher
- Girish M ShahCAresearcher and professor at Laval University
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 34 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9 | #7,608 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 6 | — |
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 Girish mean, and where does it come from?
- name of a god Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- What are other forms of the name Girish?
- In the etymology graph, Girisha is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Girish?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɹɪʃ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Girish a male or female name?
- Girish 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 Girish have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Girish in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled girish.
- How common is the name Girish?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,990 people named Girish in 2020, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
- How common is Girish compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Girish is the 379th most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Girish?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/girishThe 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, “Girish” — the 379th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.