Suresh
Suresh reached its high-water mark in 1979 at number 3,569, and has been recorded 140 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1998. About 130 Sureshes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Suresh
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 140
- Estimated living today
- 130
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1979
- Best rank
- 3,569th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1964
How old the living Sureshes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 140 babies given the name since 1964, about 130 are alive — 91 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sureshs
- Suresh Raina (born 1986)Indian cricketer
- Suresh Oberoi (born 1946)Indian actor
- Suresh Wadkar (born 1954)Indian singer
- Suresh Kalmadi (1944–2026)Indian politician
- Suresh Gopi (born 1958)Indian actor and politician
People named Suresh with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1979
The most popular boys’ names the year Suresh peaked:
Suresh elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Suresh | 6 | 4,527th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Suresh among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Suresh | 9 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Suresh against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.