Rakesh
Its meaning reads "lord of the full moon", a name that reached Poland from well outside Slavic ground. Only about 130 men carry it here, and no boys have been given it in recent years, so meeting one would stay with you.
Rakesh Pronunciation
What Rakesh means
Where Rakesh comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Rakesh comes from Sanskrit. It joins rākā, the night of the full moon, with īśa, meaning lord or master. Together they name the Moon itself, the one who rules the brightest night of the month.
For families across northern India the name stayed common through the twentieth century. Its short sense in Polish, władca nocy, keeps that older picture: a lord of the night rather than of daylight.
One bearer put the name literally above the world. Rakesh Sharma flew aboard Soyuz T-11 in April 1984 and became the first Indian citizen in space. Asked from orbit how his country looked from up there, he answered with the opening line of an old patriotic song.
A Polish teacher reading a class register would meet Rakesh rarely. The spelling holds steady, with no Polish diminutive grafted onto it. What the child carries is the plain sense of the Sanskrit: lord of the full moon.
How many people are named Rakesh
1 in 162948 men in Poland is named Rakesh. 131 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2906 among male names.
Rakesh as a middle name
Rakesh is a first name for 131 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 92/8 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2997th, between Rajkumar (11) and Rama (11).
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#2995 Quốc11
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#2996 Rajkumar11
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#2997 Rakesh11
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#2998 Rama11
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#2999 Ratna11