MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Shailesh mean?
Shailesh joins śaila, mountain, with īśa, lord. The whole Sanskrit word is a title of the Himalaya, giving the name a specific mountain referent.
Pronunciation
IAST: śaileśa
Meaning themes
mountain
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शैलेश
Letter-by-letter: śaileśa
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
शैलेष
Letter-by-letter: śaileṣa
13,802 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Shailesh in Indian usage
19,123 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (94.3%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 1,092 records (5.7%).
- Recorded as male: 18,031 records (94.3%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,038 |
| 1970s | 3,488 |
| 1980s | 7,156 |
| 1990s | 7,255 |
| Other decades | 186 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 8,208 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3,486 |
| Delhi | 2,208 |
| Rajasthan | 1,787 |
| Goa | 1,147 |
| Kerala | 863 |
| Bihar | 596 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 212 |
| Jharkhand | 140 |
| Uttarakhand | 127 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 104 |
| Other states | 245 |
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, śaileśa, p. 1090,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.