MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Ritesh mean?
Ritesh combines Sanskrit ṛta, truth or cosmic order, with īśa, lord. The vowel junction of ṛta and īśa gives ṛteśa, also written ऋतेश alongside the familiar रितेश.
Pronunciation
IAST: riteśa
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
रितेश
Letter-by-letter: riteśa
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
रीतेश
Letter-by-letter: rīteśa
19,916 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Ritesh in Indian usage
93,169 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (97.8%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 2,035 records (2.2%).
- Recorded as male: 91,134 records (97.8%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 118 |
| 1960s | 586 |
| 1970s | 10,829 |
| 1980s | 37,619 |
| 1990s | 43,827 |
| Other decades | 190 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 32,938 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 25,160 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 16,504 |
| Jharkhand | 6,536 |
| Rajasthan | 3,844 |
| Haryana | 2,070 |
| Delhi | 1,775 |
| Uttarakhand | 1,186 |
| Punjab | 1,164 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 884 |
| Goa | 410 |
| Maharashtra | 127 |
| Tripura | 108 |
| Chandigarh | 103 |
| Other states | 360 |
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, ṛta, p. 223,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, īśa, p. 171,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.