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Yogesh

A genuinely rare name in Poland: about 62 men carry it, and most Poles have never met one. It reads as foreign here, from a word meaning "lord of yoga".

Yogesh Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
62
National rank
#4684

What Yogesh means

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

Yogesh comes from Sanskrit. It joins two parts: yoga, the old discipline of body and mind, and isha, a word for lord or master. Read together, the name means lord of yoga. In Hindu tradition the title belongs to Shiva and to Krishna, both named masters of that practice.

The name stays close to its root. There is no shortened pet form here, no feminine twin, no trail of variants behind it. A boy is Yogesh, plainly.

On a Polish class register the name would sit apart, a rare entry among the Kacpers and Szymons. Poland keeps no imieniny for it, so a Yogesh here marks his own day. What the name hands over is direct and old: three syllables from Sanskrit that still say lord of yoga.

How many people are named Yogesh

1 in 344293 men in Poland is named Yogesh. 62 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4684 among male names.

People with the name Yogesh 2019 → 2025
62 +43 since 2019
2020 27 +8
2021 29 +2
2022 36 +7
2023 46 +10
2024 52 +6
2025 62 +10

Yogesh as a middle name

Yogesh is a first name for 62 men in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1642nd, between Yanina (20) and Yu (20).

As a first name
62
As a middle name
20
first name 76% middle name 24%

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