Venkatesh
Venkatesh means Meanings families give: Lord of the Venkata hill; Lord of Venkata hill, Vishnu.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit-Kannada / Telugu |
| Language | Kannada / Telugu |
| Starts with | V |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Lord of the Venkata hill; Lord of Venkata hill, Vishnu”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Venkataraman — Meanings families give: Lord Vishnu of Venkata hill; Rama of Venkata, Vishnu
- Thiruvengadam — Sacred Venkata hill, Vishnu
- Thimma — Form of Vishnu-Venkata, divine
- Venkataramaiah — Devoted to Venkata Rama, Vishnu
- Venkata — Name of a hill, Venkateswara
- Manali — A bird; hill station of the mind
More boys' names of Sanskrit-Kannada / Telugu origin
- Srinivas — Meanings families give: Abode of Lakshmi, Venkateswara; Abode of Lakshmi, Vishnu
- Krishnamurthy — Meanings families give: Form of Krishna; Image of Krishna, the dark lord
- Shivaprasad — Meanings families give: Gift of Lord Shiva; Grace of Shiva, blessed by Shiva
Where this comes from
Venkatesh has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.