Rakesh

boys:

440 births since 1966

#4146 (10th percentile)

overall:

440 births since 1966

#7299 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rakesh".

1966 2013 19662013

Key Statistics

Total Births
440
Peak Births
21
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1966
Peak Percentile
2.4%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#633
Current Rank
#887
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Rakesh

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rakesh. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 55.9% confident that Rakesh is pronounced as ruh-KEHSH. The next most likely pronunciation is rah-KEHSH, at 35.3% confidence.

ruh-KEHSH (2 syllables)
55.9% confidence
R AH0 K EH1 SH
rah-KEHSH (2 syllables)
35.3% confidence
R AA0 K EH1 SH
ruh-KAYSH (2 syllables)
8.8% confidence
R AH0 K EY1 SH

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Rakesh. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Rakesh, please vote using the thumbs up button.

RIH-shih-KEHSH (3 syllables)
2 names 198 births
R IH1 SH IH0 K EH1 SH

Names with this pronunciation:

ruh-KEH-shuh (3 syllables)
2 names 140 births
R AH0 K EH1 SH AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like R AH0 K EH1 SH) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.