MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Manish mean?
Manish is associated with the Sanskrit intellectual vocabulary around manas and manīṣā. Manisha retains the full abstract noun for wisdom as a name.
Pronunciation
IAST: manīṣa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मनीष
Letter-by-letter: manīṣa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Manish in Indian usage
475,643 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 8,079 records (1.7%).
- Recorded as male: 467,564 records (98.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 376 |
| 1940s | 196 |
| 1950s | 597 |
| 1960s | 5,356 |
| 1970s | 51,533 |
| 1980s | 181,146 |
| 1990s | 236,233 |
| Other decades | 206 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 139,226 |
| Bihar | 116,722 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 64,613 |
| Rajasthan | 58,813 |
| Delhi | 27,798 |
| Haryana | 26,363 |
| Jharkhand | 16,083 |
| Uttarakhand | 10,878 |
| Kerala | 5,836 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 5,796 |
| Chandigarh | 859 |
| Tripura | 682 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 448 |
| Maharashtra | 342 |
| Assam | 289 |
| Goa | 181 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 121 |
| Meghalaya | 115 |
| Sikkim | 115 |
| Other states | 363 |
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: Manish ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
- Wiktionary: मनीष ↗ (opens in a new tab)
origin
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.