MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Munish mean?
Muni and īśa combine a sage with lordship or pre-eminence. Sanskrit applies Munish to the Buddha, a Jina and Valmiki.
Pronunciation
IAST: munīśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
मुनीश
Letter-by-letter: munīśa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਮੁਨੀਸ਼
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
मुनीष
Letter-by-letter: munīṣa
8,946 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Munish in Indian usage
36,190 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,951 records (5.4%).
- Recorded as male: 34,239 records (94.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 782 |
| 1960s | 2,285 |
| 1970s | 6,291 |
| 1980s | 14,179 |
| 1990s | 12,340 |
| Other decades | 313 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 20,309 |
| Haryana | 5,865 |
| Punjab | 4,267 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 3,011 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 580 |
| Uttarakhand | 505 |
| Chandigarh | 471 |
| Rajasthan | 358 |
| Bihar | 341 |
| Maharashtra | 231 |
| Other states | 252 |
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, munīśa, p. 823,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.