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Rajesh

Boys' name

Ruler of kings

Rajesh has been given to 682 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1976, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Rajesh, 2013

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rajesh: meaning, origin, and history

Ruler of kings

Sanskrit

What Rajesh means

Rajesh means “ruler of kings”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

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

Origin, language, and formation

Rajesh is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Rajesh comes through Sanskrit राजेश.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 682 boys were recorded with the name Rajesh between 1965 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1976; its best national rank was #1,369 in 1976.

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 Rajesh?

Rajesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rajesh 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 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rajesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rajeshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rajesh was born before 1979 — so the typical Rajesh is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
21.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
682
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (319).

Is Rajesh 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 1976 (43)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,369
1976

Spellings of Rajesh

Rajesh is the most-used spelling, taking 57.5% of the 1,186 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Rajesh is used

Across 1910–2025, Rajesh was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 339,461 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Rajesh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rajesh around the world

Where Rajesh 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
    1996–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    1975–1975
    #2,173
    in 1975
  • South Australia
    1972–1979
    #486
    in 1979

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.

Rajesh 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,369
1976
Peak year
1976
43 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
682
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rajesh

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

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Sibling names for Rajesh

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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