What does the name Venkatesh mean?

Venkatesh means "Lord of the Venkata hill". It is a boy's name of Telugu origin.

Venkatesh

Venkatesh means Lord of the Venkata hill.

Gender	boy
Origin	Telugu
Language	Telugu
Starts with	V

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Lord of the Venkata hill”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Venkataraman — Lord Vishnu of Venkata hill
Thiruvengadam — Sacred Venkata hill, Vishnu
Thimma — Form of Vishnu-Venkata, divine
Venkataramaiah — Devoted to Venkata Rama, Vishnu
Venkata — Name of a hill, Venkateswara
Niladri — Blue mountain, Puri Jagannath temple hill

More boys' names of Telugu origin

Srinivas — Abode of Lakshmi, Venkateswara
Balaji — Lord Venkateswara, the young lord
Teja — Brilliance, radiance, strength
Vamsi — Flute, descendant
Chiranjeevi — Ever living, immortal
Prasad — Divine blessing, clarity

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.