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Umesh

A Sanskrit name for Shiva, "lord of Uma", his consort. In Poland it stays rare: about 79 men carry it, and no boy has been registered with it this century.

Umesh Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
79
National rank
#4014

What Umesh means

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

Umesh comes from Sanskrit. It joins two words, Uma and isha. Uma is a name of the goddess Parvati. Isha means lord. Together they name her husband, the god Shiva.

The short meaning holds to that: lord of Uma. Because Uma belongs to Parvati, the name points past her to Shiva himself. The origin here is marked simply as other, outside the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most Polish registers.

Real people carry it today. Umesh Yadav, born in 1987, bowls fast for the India cricket team, and his first name is the same compound of Uma and lord.

In a Polish class register, Umesh would keep no imieniny, since the calendar holds no day for it. What it keeps instead is its Sanskrit sum: Uma plus isha, lord of Uma.

How many people are named Umesh

1 in 270205 men in Poland is named Umesh. 79 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4014 among male names.

People with the name Umesh 2019 → 2025
79 +58 since 2019
2020 24 +3
2021 25 +1
2022 27 +2
2023 35 +8
2024 60 +25
2025 79 +19

Umesh as a middle name

Umesh is a first name for 79 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, an 86/14 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2711th, between Ulises (13) and Uzoma (13).

As a first name
79
As a middle name
13
first name 86% middle name 14%

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