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Suresh name meaning

“ruler of the gods”

Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Origin
Sanskrit · Hindi
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1980s: 14.1%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s8.4%
1980s14.1%
1990s9.5%
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: SMeaning leadershipSanskrit origin

Suresh is a boy's name from Sanskrit meaning 'ruler of the gods'.

What does Suresh mean?

Ruler of the gods

In Malay: penguasa para dewa

#Leadership#Faith

Sources (1)

About the name Suresh

Suresh comes from Sanskrit sura, 'god', and īśa, 'lord, ruler'. In Sanskrit it is an epithet of Indra, and in Hindi also of Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna and Agni. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 1,133 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Hindi
SyllablesSu-resh
First letterIndian Names starting with S
Devanagari scriptसुरेश

Suresh in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Boy: 866 · 8.4%
1980s
Boy: 1,133 · 14.1%
1990s
Boy: 467 · 9.5%
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Suresh 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. Wiktionary: सुरेश · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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