Given name
Lokesh
“lord of the world”
Lokesh is a masculine given name from Sanskrit, meaning “lord of the world.”
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lokesh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2004. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 772 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Lokesh
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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