Nitesh
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Nitesh is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Mauritius it is the 5th most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 64Kfew records
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 85Kfew records
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 Nitesh itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈340,000 people, est.
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 Nitish in BD Bangladesh, MU Mauritius and นิธิศ in TH Thailand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nitesh 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 | #273 | ≈340,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 167 | Nitesh | 241 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | register #281,459 | นิธิศ | 91 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Nitish | 23 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Nitesh | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Nitesh | 28 |
| US United States | — | 711 | 1 in 468K | 704 | Nitesh | 225 |
| MU Mauritius | #5 | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1 | Nitish | 25 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Nitesh | 17 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; OEC — National Assembly Elections 2024 Elected Candidates. 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)- Nitesh Pandeyb. 1973INIndian actor
- Kumar Niteshb. 1994INIndian para-badminton player (born 1994)
- Nitesh ChawlaUSuniversity researcher, University of Notre Dame
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nitesh a male or female name?
- Nitesh is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Nitesh?
- Mondonomo estimates about 336 thousand people named Nitesh in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nitesh. After it come Thailand, Bangladesh, Indonesia and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nitesh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 711 people named Nitesh in 2020, about 1 in 468 thousand residents.
- How common is Nitesh compared with other names?
- In India, Nitesh is the 273rd most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nitesh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niteshThe 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, “Nitesh” — the 273rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.