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Ramesh

Boys' name

Husband of Rama (the goddess Lakshmi)

Ramesh has been given to 185 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1980, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Ramesh, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ramesh: meaning, origin, and history

Husband of Rama (the goddess Lakshmi)

Sanskrit

What Ramesh means

Ramesh means “husband of Rama (the goddess Lakshmi)”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Sanskrit रमेश (rameśa), meaning "husband of Rama (the goddess Lakshmi)", an epithet of Vishnu and Krishna.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Ramesh (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Ramesh is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Ramesh comes through Sanskrit रमेश.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Ramesh is pronounced /ɹəˈmeɪʃ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 185 boys were recorded with the name Ramesh between 1966 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1980; its best national rank was #3,018 in 1969.

How common is Ramesh?

Ramesh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ramesh 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ramesh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rameshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ramesh was born before 1980 — so the typical Ramesh is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
185
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Ramesh 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 1980 (13)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,018
1969

Spellings of Ramesh

Ramesh is not the most common spelling — James is, with 99.8% against Ramesh's <0.01%.

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 Ramesh is used

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

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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. Ramesh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ramesh around the world

Where Ramesh 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
    1997–1999
    #2,943
    in 1999
  • France
    1989–1993
    #3,267
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1975–1999
    #539
    in 1999

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.

Ramesh 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
#3,018
1969
Peak year
1980
13 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
185
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ramesh

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

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Sibling names for Ramesh

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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