Given name · also Hindi
Rajneesh
“lord of the night”
Rajneesh is a masculine given name from Hindi, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Original Hindiरजनीश
Meaning & origin
What it means
Rajneesh goes back to Sanskrit रजनीश, meaning “lord of the night.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Rajneesh comes from Hindi, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Hindi रजनीश, from Sanskrit रजनीश (“lord of the night”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1986. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Rajneesh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 6 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 6 in 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 268 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.
Rajneesh’s family of names
In English usage, Rajneesh was borrowed from the Hindi form रजनीश.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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