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Naresh

The name means "lord of men, king". In Poland it stays rare: barely a hundred men carry it, and the record shows no newborns given it this century. Meet one and you'll remember it.

Naresh Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
103
National rank
#3378

What Naresh means

Where Naresh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Naresh reaches Polish registers from outside them. It is a Sanskrit word, not Slavic and not Latin. Two roots build it: nara, meaning man, and isha, meaning lord. Together they give the sense recorded here, lord of men, king.

The grounding files the origin under "other," and that is honest. Naresh belongs to no saint's day in the Polish calendar, so a child who carries it will not find an imieniny printed beside it. The meaning holds without that support. By the plain sense of its two roots, a Naresh is a ruler over people.

On a Polish class register the name would stand out among the Jakubs and Piotrs. Its stress and vowels announce the distance it travelled. The short Polish rendering keeps the same idea: władca ludzi.

How many people are named Naresh

1 in 207245 men in Poland is named Naresh. 103 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3378 among male names.

People with the name Naresh 2019 → 2025
103 +69 since 2019
2020 35 +1
2021 37 +2
2022 48 +11
2023 68 +20
2024 83 +15
2025 103 +20

Naresh as a middle name

Naresh is a first name for 103 men in Poland and a middle name for another 14, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2544th, between Nader (14) and Naser (14).

As a first name
103
As a middle name
14
first name 88% middle name 12%

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