Rajesh
An Indian name from Sanskrit, joining *rāja*, king, with *īśa*, lord: ruler of kings. In Poland it lands as a visitor with no name-day, a name most Poles have never met in person.
Rajesh Pronunciation
What Rajesh means
Where Rajesh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rajesh comes from far outside the Polish naming tradition, an Indian name built on Sanskrit roots. It joins rāja, meaning king, with īśa, a lord or ruler, and the two together give the sense recorded on this site: ruler of kings. The form is masculine and appears here on its own, with no diminutives or variants attached to it.
In India, millions of men answer to it. The best known is probably Rajesh Khanna, whom Hindi cinema crowned its first superstar around 1970. For a few years his face sold tickets across the subcontinent, and the name travelled with his fame.
In Poland the name lands as a visitor. It has no name-day here. Set into a school class register beside a Kuba or a Zosia, it would make a teacher slow down at roll call. The Sanskrit īśa still does its work inside it: ruler of kings, pan królów.
How many people are named Rajesh
1 in 74899 men in Poland is named Rajesh. 287 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1792 among male names.
Rajesh as a middle name
Rajesh is a first name for 287 men in Poland and a middle name for another 57, an 83/17 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 990th, between Maximus (57) and Raju (57).
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#988 Jude57
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#989 Maximus57
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#990 Rajesh57
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#991 Raju57
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#992 Ramesh57