Yogesh
Yogesh is an Indian masculine given name. The Sanskrit word yogeśa is a compound of the words yoga and īśa and has the meaning "master of yoga" and has also been used as an epithet of Shiva.
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Punjabi
Meaning & Origin of Yogesh
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Yogesh is an Indian masculine given name. The Sanskrit word yogeśa is a compound of the words yoga and īśa and has the meaning "master of yoga" and has also been used as an epithet of Shiva.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hindi
- Marathi
- Punjabi
The Story of Yogesh
The earliest SSA record of Yogesh as a baby boy name dates back to 1981, when 6 babies received it. 1996 was its biggest year on record, with 7 newborns named Yogesh — #7,137 in the national rankings. About 33% of every Yogesh on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Yogesh last appeared in the published SSA data in 2015, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 51 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Notable people named Yogesh
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- Yogesh (actor)
- Yogesh (lyricist) (born 1943), Indian writer and lyricist
- Yogesh Atal (1937–2018), Indian sociologist
- Yogesh Chander Deveshwar (born 1947), Indian businessman
- Yogesh Gholap , Indian politician of Maharashtra
- Yogesh Golwalkar (born 1980), Indian cricket player
- Yogesh Jaluria , scientist
- Yogesh Joshi , several people
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About the name Yogesh
Yogesh is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1981 and has accumulated 51 births in the dataset. Yogesh's peak popularity came in 1996 when it ranked #7,137. Use the chart and map above to compare Yogesh'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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