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Dinesh name meaning

“lord of the day; the sun”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
D
Origin
Sanskrit · Hindi
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 2000s: 16.5%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s16.5%
2000s16.5%
2010s–

Indian Names: DMeaning the sunSanskrit origin

Dinesh is a boy's name from Sanskrit meaning 'lord of the day', that is, the sun.

What does Dinesh mean?

Lord of the day; the sun

In Malay: tuan hari; matahari

#The sun#Leadership

Sources (3)

About the name Dinesh

Dinesh is the modern form of Sanskrit Dinesha, made of dina 'day' and īśa 'lord'. In Hindi the word also means the sun. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1990s with 812 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Hindi
SyllablesDi-nesh
First letterIndian Names starting with D
Devanagari scriptदिनेश

Dinesh in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
Boy: 812 · 16.5%
2000s
Boy: 662 · 16.5%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Dinesh as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Dinesh · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: दिनेश · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: ईश · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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