Venkatesh
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Venkatesh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Telugu వెంకటేష్ (veṅkaṭēṣ).
- USUnited States1 in 211K(measured from records)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 4.2K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 9.2K
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
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Venkates in KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates.
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)
Borrowed from Telugu వెంకటేష్ (veṅkaṭēṣ).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Venkatesh 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 | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Venkatesh | 8 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Venkatesh | 10 |
| AO Angola | #555 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Venkatesh | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,576 | 1 in 211K | 1.8K | Venkatesh | 268 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Venkates | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Venkates | 3 |
| SG Singapore | #997 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Venkatesh | 41 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Venkatesh Prasadb. 1987INbadminton player
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,485 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,485 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 494 | #41,522 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Venkatesh mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Telugu వెంకటేష్ (veṅkaṭēṣ). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Venkatesh a male or female name?
- Venkatesh 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 Venkatesh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Venkatesh in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled venkatesh.
- How common is the name Venkatesh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,576 people named Venkatesh in 2020, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
- How common is Venkatesh compared with other names?
- In Angola, Venkatesh is the 555th most common given name of 11,132 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/venkateshThe 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, “Venkatesh” — the 555th most common given name in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.