Mitesh
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mitesh has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1981, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Mitesh, 1996
1 in 405,000
Mitesh over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mitesh?
Mitesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 405,000
- 9 of 3,646,048 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 210,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 280,806 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mitesh sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 280,806 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mitesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Miteshs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mitesh was born before 1986 — so the typical Mitesh is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 61.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 148
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (91).
Is Mitesh 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1981 (13)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.7% average annual change
Spellings of Mitesh
Mitesh is not the most common spelling — Miles is, with 95.6% against Mitesh's 0.12%.
Mitesh around the world
Where Mitesh 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 & Wales1996–2007#4,333in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Mitesh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mitesh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mitesh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.