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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Dhanesh

Lord of wealth; Kubera

Dhanesh means “Lord of wealth; Kubera”.

Origin language
Sanskrit
First letter
D
Historical records
22,705

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Dhanesh mean?

Dhaneśa combines dhana, wealth, with īśa, lord. The complete Sanskrit word is a name of Kubera. Kubera is the deity of riches and guardian of the northern direction.

Pronunciation

IAST: dhaneśa

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

धनेश

Letter-by-letter: dhaneśa

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Dhanesh in Indian usage

22,705 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (94.2%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 1,310 records (5.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 21,395 records (94.2%).

By birth decade

Dhanesh: records by birth decade1940s: 4471940s1950s: 1,0291950s1960s: 2,2931960s1970s: 4,6461970s1980s: 8,5561980s1990s: 5,5651990sOther decades: 169Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s447
1950s1,029
1960s2,293
1970s4,646
1980s8,556
1990s5,565
Other decades169

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Uttar Pradesh6,069
Bihar5,128
Kerala4,934
Rajasthan1,970
Madhya Pradesh1,900
Jharkhand851
Haryana514
Delhi475
Uttarakhand264
Andhra Pradesh141
Other states459
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, dhaneśa, p. 508,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, kubera, p. 291,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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