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Dinesh

Boys' name

Form of Dinesha

Dinesh has been given to 167 babies in the U.S. since 1964. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2007, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Dinesh, 2009

1 in 637,000

Dinesh over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dinesh: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Dinesha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dinesh means

Dinesh is a form of Dinesha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dinesh is used in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Nepali and Sinhalese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /d̪ɪ.ˈneːʃ/ and /ˈd̪i.neːʃ/ for Dinesh.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Dinesh → Dinesha. The family’s meaning is “day lord”, recorded in the naming reference for Dinesha.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Dinesha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 167 boys were recorded with the name Dinesh between 1964 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,432 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Dinesh?

Dinesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 331,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,341 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dinesh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dinesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dineshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dinesh was born before 1994 — so the typical Dinesh is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
167
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Dinesh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2007 (11)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,432
1971

Spellings of Dinesh

Dinesh is not the most common spelling — Dinero is, with 76.6% against Dinesh's 23.4%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dinesh is used

Across 1910–2025, Dinesh was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dinesh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dinesh around the world

Where Dinesh ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1983–2010
    #5,599
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1991–2006
    #2,152
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1975–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Dinesh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,432
1971
Peak year
2007
11 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
167
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dinesh

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

DineroDinariDeveshDinnisVigneshRiteshSarveshNileshRameshMiteshSureshMaheshNikeshAneeshAvneeshAvaneeshGaneshDinnieDinkNareshJayeshHiteshNimeshRakesh

Sibling names for Dinesh

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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