MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Girish mean?
Girīśa combines giri, mountain, with īśa, lord. The complete word is a Shiva epithet, associated with his mountain dwelling.
Pronunciation
IAST: girīśa
Meaning themes
shivamountains
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
गिरीश
Letter-by-letter: girīśa
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
गिरिश
Letter-by-letter: giriśa
6,211 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Girish in Indian usage
61,643 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,617 records (2.6%).
- Recorded as male: 60,026 records (97.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,818 |
| 1950s | 5,331 |
| 1960s | 11,446 |
| 1970s | 15,611 |
| 1980s | 17,348 |
| 1990s | 9,604 |
| Other decades | 485 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 25,600 |
| Uttarakhand | 10,139 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5,746 |
| Bihar | 5,287 |
| Rajasthan | 4,229 |
| Kerala | 2,892 |
| Jharkhand | 1,997 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 1,722 |
| Haryana | 1,505 |
| Delhi | 795 |
| Goa | 498 |
| Punjab | 407 |
| Maharashtra | 246 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 232 |
| Chandigarh | 120 |
| Other states | 228 |
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, girīśa, p. 355,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.