MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Rajesh mean?
Rājeśa combines rāja, king, with īśa, lord, with the two adjacent vowels joining in the Sanskrit compound. Rajeshwar expands the final lord element to īśvara.
Pronunciation
IAST: rājeśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
राजेश
Letter-by-letter: rājeśa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Rajesh in Indian usage
1,748,849 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (95.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 73,354 records (4.2%).
- Recorded as male: 1,675,495 records (95.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,326 |
| 1930s | 744 |
| 1940s | 3,345 |
| 1950s | 20,760 |
| 1960s | 138,697 |
| 1970s | 514,647 |
| 1980s | 699,479 |
| 1990s | 369,603 |
| Other decades | 248 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 592,040 |
| Bihar | 308,539 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 236,669 |
| Rajasthan | 142,341 |
| Haryana | 128,187 |
| Jharkhand | 87,333 |
| Kerala | 68,336 |
| Delhi | 58,243 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 42,959 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 22,137 |
| Uttarakhand | 21,772 |
| Punjab | 18,938 |
| Tripura | 4,733 |
| Chandigarh | 3,591 |
| Goa | 2,839 |
| Assam | 2,314 |
| Maharashtra | 2,175 |
| Puducherry | 1,351 |
| Meghalaya | 1,102 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 654 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 629 |
| Odisha | 410 |
| Sikkim | 369 |
| Manipur | 317 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 287 |
| Nagaland | 226 |
| Daman and Diu | 225 |
| Other states | 133 |
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: Rajesh ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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