MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mahesh mean?
Maheśa combines mahā, great, with īśa, lord, and is an established name of Shiva. Vowel sandhi joins mahā with īśa to form maheśa. Shiva is also known as the great ascetic, linking the title with the deity's yogic image.
Pronunciation
IAST: maheśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
महेश
Letter-by-letter: maheśa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਮਹੇਸ਼
Conventional spelling
Bengali
মহেশ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mahesh in Indian usage
708,726 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (99.2%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 6,003 records (0.8%).
- Recorded as male: 702,723 records (99.2%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 774 |
| 1930s | 3,156 |
| 1940s | 13,193 |
| 1950s | 41,157 |
| 1960s | 105,887 |
| 1970s | 170,455 |
| 1980s | 222,437 |
| 1990s | 151,524 |
| Other decades | 143 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 219,299 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 137,209 |
| Bihar | 111,921 |
| Rajasthan | 85,081 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 33,059 |
| Jharkhand | 28,807 |
| Delhi | 22,149 |
| Haryana | 21,214 |
| Kerala | 16,731 |
| Uttarakhand | 16,122 |
| Punjab | 5,242 |
| Goa | 2,858 |
| Assam | 2,847 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,371 |
| Maharashtra | 1,103 |
| Chandigarh | 720 |
| Tripura | 343 |
| Karnataka | 299 |
| Puducherry | 281 |
| Sikkim | 183 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 158 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 150 |
| Meghalaya | 145 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 138 |
| Daman and Diu | 135 |
| Other states | 161 |
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, maheśa, p. 802,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Mahesh ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Wiktionary: महेश ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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