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Mahesh

Boys' name

Form of Mahesha

Mahesh has been given to 214 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 14 recorded.

Babies named Mahesh, 2017

1 in 596,000

Mahesh 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahesh: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Mahesha

Sanskrit

What Mahesh means

Mahesh is a form of Mahesha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mahesh is used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Nepali.

Origin, language, and formation

Mahesh is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mahesha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 214 boys were recorded with the name Mahesh between 1970 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2007; its best national rank was #3,831 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mahesh?

Mahesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 596,000
6 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 308,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
413,245 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mahesh 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 2017 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 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maheshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahesh was born before 1996 — so the typical Mahesh is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
214
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2000s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Mahesh 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 (14)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,831
1971

Spellings of Mahesh

Mahesh is not the most common spelling — Maher is, with 44.7% against Mahesh's 8.3%.

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 Mahesh is used

Across 1910–2025, Mahesh 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. Mahesh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mahesh around the world

Where Mahesh 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
    1996–2007
    #4,333
    in 2007
  • France
    2010–2019
    #5,515
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #476
    in 1988

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

Mahesh 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
#3,831
1971
Peak year
2007
14 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
214
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mahesh

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

MahmudMahariMahkaiMahziMaheerMahmoodMahamedMahanMahlikDeveshMahidMahaadMahadMahadevVigneshMahinMahaanSarveshMahkiMaherRameshNileshAneeshRitesh

Sibling names for Mahesh

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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