MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Devesh mean?
Devesh combines deva, god, with īśa, lord. Sanskrit applies the complete title to Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and Indra. The word can also denote a king or prince, extending the idea of lordship into royal vocabulary.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
देवेश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Devesh in Indian usage
29,470 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.7%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 664 records (2.3%).
- Recorded as male: 28,806 records (97.7%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 416 |
| 1960s | 1,601 |
| 1970s | 4,303 |
| 1980s | 10,921 |
| 1990s | 12,099 |
| Other decades | 130 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 18,256 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,801 |
| Rajasthan | 2,075 |
| Bihar | 1,822 |
| Delhi | 1,148 |
| Uttarakhand | 945 |
| Jharkhand | 577 |
| Haryana | 458 |
| Other states | 388 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, deveśa, p. 495,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.