MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Suresh mean?
Sureśa combines sura, deity, with īśa, lord, and occurs as a divine title. The compound's vowel junction joins sura with īśa to form sureśa.
Pronunciation
IAST: sureśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुरेश
Letter-by-letter: sureśa
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Suresh in Indian usage
1,299,178 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.9%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 40,074 records (3.1%).
- Recorded as male: 1,259,104 records (96.9%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 1,039 |
| 1930s | 4,627 |
| 1940s | 26,383 |
| 1950s | 103,849 |
| 1960s | 268,553 |
| 1970s | 357,738 |
| 1980s | 343,674 |
| 1990s | 193,124 |
| Other decades | 191 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 349,928 |
| Bihar | 193,714 |
| Rajasthan | 176,725 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 156,288 |
| Haryana | 99,894 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 85,145 |
| Kerala | 82,364 |
| Jharkhand | 62,197 |
| Delhi | 25,972 |
| Uttarakhand | 21,732 |
| Punjab | 16,763 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 10,008 |
| Maharashtra | 4,653 |
| Goa | 3,474 |
| Puducherry | 2,470 |
| Chandigarh | 2,106 |
| Tripura | 1,841 |
| Assam | 634 |
| Meghalaya | 524 |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 503 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 497 |
| Sikkim | 385 |
| Karnataka | 298 |
| Manipur | 244 |
| Nagaland | 212 |
| Mizoram | 208 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 170 |
| Other states | 229 |
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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Documented namesakes
Suresh Navaratnam
Malaysian cricketer
Sources
- Given-name entry (Wikidata): Suresh ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Given-name spelling
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, sureśa, p. 1235,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: सुरेश ↗ (opens in a new tab)
meaning
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