MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ratnesh mean?
Ratnesh joins ratna, jewel, with īśa, lord. Sanskrit vowel combination produces ratneśa, giving the compound its familiar sense of a master or lord of precious gems.
Meaning themes
precious
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रत्नेश
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रतनेश
Letter-by-letter: rataneśa
10,675 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ratnesh in Indian usage
33,942 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (86.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 4,611 records (13.6%).
- Recorded as male: 29,331 records (86.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 563 |
| 1960s | 2,105 |
| 1970s | 6,107 |
| 1980s | 13,451 |
| 1990s | 11,541 |
| Other decades | 175 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 18,985 |
| Bihar | 11,304 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 2,569 |
| Rajasthan | 299 |
| Haryana | 234 |
| Jharkhand | 211 |
| Uttarakhand | 140 |
| Other states | 200 |
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, ratna, p. 864,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, īśa, p. 171,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.