Ganesh
Barely 200 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The name comes from Sanskrit, joining gaṇa, a host, and īśa, lord: lord of hosts.
Ganesh Pronunciation
What Ganesh means
Where Ganesh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ganesh comes from Sanskrit, where it joins two words: gaṇa, meaning a host or multitude, and īśa, meaning lord. Put together they give the sense recorded here, lord of hosts, in Polish pan zastępów. The gaṇa were the followers and troops of a divine leader, so the name marks someone set over a crowd.
In India the fuller form Ganesha belongs to the elephant-headed remover of obstacles, invoked at the start of new work. That association is religious rather than Polish. The name has no name-day in the Polish calendar and no established diminutive here.
A child called Ganesh in a Kraków school register would stand out on the list. The name is rare in Poland. It reads as an import, its Sanskrit root still visible. What travels with it is the plain meaning: lord of hosts, pan zastępów.
How many people are named Ganesh
1 in 105154 men in Poland is named Ganesh. 203 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2208 among male names.
Ganesh as a middle name
Ganesh is a first name for 203 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1326th, between Duong (37) and Giang (37).
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