MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Kamesh mean?
Kamesh joins kama, “desire” or “love”, with isha, “lord”, through Sanskrit vowel joining. The complete title is used for Shiva and is related to Kameshvara in goddess-centred devotion.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
कामेश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Kamesh in Indian usage
3,352 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (81%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 637 records (19%).
- Recorded as male: 2,715 records (81%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 375 |
| 1970s | 700 |
| 1980s | 928 |
| 1990s | 1,182 |
| Other decades | 167 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,629 |
| Bihar | 613 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 327 |
| Jharkhand | 318 |
| Uttarakhand | 183 |
| Rajasthan | 126 |
| Other states | 156 |
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, kāma, p. 271,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, īśa, p. 171,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.