Dinesh
Dinesh is a common Hindu male given name. The Sanskrit word dineśa is a compound of dina 'day' and īśa 'lord', meaning 'day-lord', an epithet of the Sun.
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Telugu
Meaning & Origin of Dinesh
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Dinesh is a common Hindu male given name. The Sanskrit word dineśa is a compound of dina 'day' and īśa 'lord', meaning 'day-lord', an epithet of the Sun.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Malayalam
- Kannada
- Gujarati
- Bengali
- Punjabi
- Nepali
- Sinhalese
The Story of Dinesh
The earliest SSA record of Dinesh as a baby boy name dates back to 1964, when 5 babies received it. 2007 was its biggest year on record, with 11 newborns named Dinesh — #7,094 in the national rankings. About 31% of every Dinesh on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Dinesh last appeared in the published SSA data in 2009, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 167 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Dinesh
Dinesh is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1964 and has accumulated 167 births in the dataset. Dinesh's peak popularity came in 2007 when it ranked #7,094. Use the chart and map above to compare Dinesh's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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