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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Nagesh

Lord of serpents; Shiva

Nagesh means “Lord of serpents; Shiva”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Telugu
First letter
N
Historical records
8,123

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Nagesh mean?

Nagesha combines naga, serpent, with isha, lord. The Sanskrit dictionary records Nagesha as a Shiva linga in Darukavana, providing the compound with a specific divine referent.

Pronunciation

IAST: nāgeśa

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

नागेश

Letter-by-letter: nāgeśa

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Nagesh in Indian usage

8,123 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Nagesh: records by birth decade1950s: 2601950s1960s: 7601960s1970s: 1,5751970s1980s: 2,9611980s1990s: 2,4411990sOther decades: 126Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1950s260
1960s760
1970s1,575
1980s2,961
1990s2,441
Other decades126

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Andhra Pradesh6,717
Goa871
Kerala386
Other states149
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

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, nāgeśa, p. 533,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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