MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Umesh mean?
Umeśa joins Umā, a name of Parvati, with īśa and therefore refers to Shiva through his association with Uma. Umashankar pairs Uma with another established name of Shiva.
Pronunciation
IAST: umeśa
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
उमेश
Letter-by-letter: umeśa
Conventional spelling
Bengali
উমেশ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Umesh in Indian usage
533,726 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (98.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 9,952 records (1.9%).
- Recorded as male: 523,774 records (98.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 679 |
| 1930s | 1,263 |
| 1940s | 5,559 |
| 1950s | 24,172 |
| 1960s | 75,379 |
| 1970s | 137,679 |
| 1980s | 174,676 |
| 1990s | 114,162 |
| Other decades | 157 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Bihar | 200,427 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 186,215 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 48,046 |
| Jharkhand | 40,544 |
| Rajasthan | 14,034 |
| Haryana | 10,266 |
| Delhi | 8,987 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,244 |
| Kerala | 4,245 |
| Assam | 2,911 |
| Goa | 2,162 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 2,000 |
| Punjab | 1,825 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 885 |
| Maharashtra | 749 |
| Tripura | 640 |
| Chandigarh | 509 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 220 |
| Sikkim | 167 |
| Meghalaya | 145 |
| Karnataka | 122 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 107 |
| Other states | 276 |
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, umeśa, p. 217,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.