MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Dinesh mean?
Dineśa combines dina, day, with īśa, lord, using a poetic title for the sun. Dinkar expresses a similar day-and-sun image with kara, maker.
Pronunciation
IAST: dineśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
दिनेश
Letter-by-letter: dineśa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਦਿਨੇਸ਼
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Dinesh in Indian usage
1,097,168 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 9,488 records (0.9%).
- Recorded as male: 1,087,680 records (99.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 803 |
| 1930s | 1,373 |
| 1940s | 7,547 |
| 1950s | 35,316 |
| 1960s | 121,322 |
| 1970s | 258,718 |
| 1980s | 402,091 |
| 1990s | 269,822 |
| Other decades | 176 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 393,093 |
| Bihar | 194,189 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 177,968 |
| Rajasthan | 157,764 |
| Jharkhand | 44,781 |
| Haryana | 42,433 |
| Uttarakhand | 29,689 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 13,119 |
| Punjab | 10,826 |
| Delhi | 10,782 |
| Kerala | 7,942 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 5,517 |
| Goa | 1,686 |
| Assam | 1,657 |
| Chandigarh | 1,575 |
| Maharashtra | 1,152 |
| Meghalaya | 529 |
| Puducherry | 502 |
| Sikkim | 412 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 314 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 267 |
| Tripura | 235 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 179 |
| Manipur | 176 |
| Daman and Diu | 127 |
| Odisha | 101 |
| Other states | 153 |
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
- Behind the Name: Dinesh ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: दिनेश ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: ईश ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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