Himanshu
The name means "moonbeam" or simply "the moon". In Poland it belongs to about 60 men and almost no one else, so most Poles will never meet one, and it is slipping further out of use.
Himanshu Pronunciation
What Himanshu means
Where Himanshu comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Himanshu comes from Sanskrit. The word breaks into hima, meaning frost or snow, and anshu, meaning ray or beam. Read together, it names the one with cool rays, an old epithet for the moon. That sense reaches Polish as promień księżyca, a moonbeam, and księżyc, the moon.
The moon in Sanskrit verse is the cold-rayed lamp, set against the burning sun. That contrast lives in the name. Himanshu is a masculine given name across India, common among boys and men.
Picture the name on an official form at a Polish urząd. The clerk copies out Himanshu, letter by letter, a spelling few in the room have written before. The meaning stays fixed behind it: the moon, and the ray it sends down.
How many people are named Himanshu
1 in 355770 men in Poland is named Himanshu. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4758 among male names.
Himanshu as a middle name
Himanshu is a first name for 60 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10, an 86/14 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2407th, between Hela (10) and Huguette (10).
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#2405 Hayat10
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#2406 Hela10
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#2407 Himanshu10
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#2408 Huguette10
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#2409 Hạnh10