Ramesh
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ramesh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: from ‘rest’, ‘repose’, ‘night’, a byname of Lakshmi + ‘lord’, hence meaning ‘lord of Lakshmi’, a byname of Vishnu.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.7K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 10K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #309 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 300 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
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: from ‘rest’, ‘repose’, ‘night’, a byname of Lakshmi + ‘lord’, hence meaning ‘lord of Lakshmi’, a byname of Vishnu.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ramesh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 300 | 5 | Ramesh | 83 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Ramesh | 42 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #311 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Ramesh | 48 |
| MY Malaysia | #485 | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 1.1K | Ramesh | 81 |
| PK Pakistan | #445 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Ramesh | 39 |
| US United States | — | 7,076 | 1 in 47K | 6.9K | Ramesh | 355 |
| SG Singapore | #280 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Ramesh | 89 |
| GY Guyana | #46 | 836 | 1 in 897 | 836 | Ramesh | 10 |
| IN India | #12 | — | — | 5.2K | Ramesh | 304 |
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; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Ramesh is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Sanskrit; great judge or adviser
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
In English, A male given name from Sanskrit used in Nepal and India.
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)
- Ramesh Chandra Majumdarb. 1888INIndian historian and academic (1888–1980)
- Ramesh Balsekarb. 1917INIndian guru (1917–2009)
- Ramesh Sippyb. 1947INIndian film director
- जिष्णू देव वर्माb. 1947INnot in their usual nameIndian politician
- Ramesh Khannab. 1954INIndian actor/director
- Prakash Padukoneb. 1955INnot in their usual nameIndian badminton player
- Ramesh Krishnanb. 1961INIndian tennis player
- Ghattamaneni Ramesh Babub. 1965INIndian actor
- Ramesh Raskarb. 1970USAmerican scientist, professor and head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group
- Ramesh Ponnurub. 1974USAmerican conservative political pundit and journalist
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 61 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18K | #79 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5.2K | #1,516 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,672 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 792 | #28,375 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Ramesh mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: from ‘rest’, ‘repose’, ‘night’, a byname of Lakshmi + ‘lord’, hence meaning ‘lord of Lakshmi’, a byname of Vishnu. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Ramesh a male or female name?
- Ramesh 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 Ramesh?
- In the etymology graph, Ramesha is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ramesh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Ramesh in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ramesh.
- How common is the name Ramesh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,076 people named Ramesh in 2020, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Ramesh compared with other names?
- In India, Ramesh is the 12th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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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, “Ramesh” — the 12th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.