MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Mangalesh mean?
Mangal, auspiciousness or well-being, joins esh, lord, in Mangalesh. The compound is used as a devotional name of Shiva, whose own Sanskrit name also carries the sense of auspiciousness.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मंगलेश
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Mangalesh in Indian usage
5,059 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Used for both boys and girls in these historical records; the recorded sex does not determine anyone’s identity.
- Recorded as female: 1,345 records (26.6%).
- Recorded as male: 3,714 records (73.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 401 |
| 1970s | 846 |
| 1980s | 1,852 |
| 1990s | 1,768 |
| Other decades | 192 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | 1,897 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1,789 |
| Bihar | 431 |
| Rajasthan | 346 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 170 |
| Uttarakhand | 163 |
| Jharkhand | 136 |
| Other states | 127 |
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, maṅgala, p. 772,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, īśa, p. 171,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śiva, p. 1074,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.