MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Naresh mean?
Nareśa is nara, person or man, combined with īśa, lord, making it a royal title as well as a given name. Narendra expresses the people-and-chief idea with a different ending.
Pronunciation
IAST: nareśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
नरेश
Letter-by-letter: nareśa
Conventional spelling
Gurmukhi
ਨਰੇਸ਼
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Naresh in Indian usage
567,462 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.5%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 19,889 records (3.5%).
- Recorded as male: 547,573 records (96.5%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 636 |
| 1930s | 1,952 |
| 1940s | 9,307 |
| 1950s | 36,123 |
| 1960s | 96,009 |
| 1970s | 144,470 |
| 1980s | 171,369 |
| 1990s | 107,494 |
| Other decades | 102 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 127,846 |
| Bihar | 108,695 |
| Haryana | 81,241 |
| Rajasthan | 68,708 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 45,994 |
| Jharkhand | 35,512 |
| Punjab | 28,547 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 26,568 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 17,581 |
| Uttarakhand | 12,836 |
| Delhi | 7,925 |
| Chandigarh | 1,663 |
| Tripura | 1,378 |
| Goa | 928 |
| Maharashtra | 535 |
| Assam | 470 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 145 |
| Kerala | 134 |
| Meghalaya | 125 |
| Sikkim | 111 |
| Puducherry | 103 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 100 |
| Other states | 317 |
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, nareśa, p. 529,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Behind the Name: Naresh ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.