Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1966. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ramesh through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 185
- 185 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 13 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 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1980. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 7,076 as a first name in 2020; 3,205 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ramesh’s family of names
Ramesh may belong to the same name family as RAMESHH. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ramesh
- Ramesh SippyIndian film directorborn 1947
- Ramesh KrishnanIndian tennis playerborn 1961
- R. C. MajumdarIndian historian and academic (1888–1980)
- Ramesh Pokhriyal5th Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, Indiaborn 1958
- Ramesh PatelNew Zealand field hockey playerborn 1953
- Ramesh BalsekarIndian guru (1917–2009)
- Ramesh BaisIndian politicianborn 1947
- Ramesh Chandra Lahoti35th Chief Justice of India1940–2022
- Ramesh AgrawalIndian environmentalist
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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