Lokesh
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lokesh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit लोकेश (lokeśa, “lord of the world”).
- USUnited States1 in 431K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 8.1K
- GYGuyana1 in 38K
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
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
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 लोकेश (lokeśa, “lord of the world”)
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lokesh 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 | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Lokesh | 16 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Lokesh | 13 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 1 | Lokesh | 25 |
| US United States | — | 772 | 1 in 431K | 772 | Lokesh | 216 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Lokesh | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Lokesh | 21 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Lokesh | 31 |
| GY Guyana | — | 20 | 1 in 38K | 20 | Lokesh | 1 |
| IN India | #507 | — | — | 57 | Lokesh | 249 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lokesh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from Sanskrit.
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)
- Lokesh Chandrab. 1927INIndian historian
- Lokesh Thanib. 1962INauthor
- Lokesh Viswanathanb. 1994INbadminton player
- Lokesh Bamb. 2000NPNepalese cricketer; wicket‑keeper batter
- Lokesh K. DewanganINresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-6725-0483)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.8K | #1,337 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 57 | #41,047 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Lokesh mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit लोकेश (lokeśa, “lord of the world”) Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Lokesh a male or female name?
- Lokesh 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 Lokesh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Lokesh in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lokesh.
- How common is the name Lokesh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 772 people named Lokesh in 2020, about 1 in 431 thousand residents.
- How common is Lokesh compared with other names?
- In India, Lokesh is the 507th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lokeshThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lokesh” — the 507th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.