Ñâth
surname · Latin script
Ñâth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 242,562 people, counted by Instate, which ranks it 98th. Recorded meaning: Hindu name from Sanskrit ndtha ‘lord’. This commonly occurs as the final element of compound personal names, from which it appears to have evolved into a surname. Ñâth is also written নাথ in Bengali, נאת in Hebrew and ନାଥ in Odia.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 2.4Kfew records
- OMOman≈1 in 4.9Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #496 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
242,562 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ñâth in other scripts: Bengali, Hebrew, Odia and 1 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nath in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hindu name from Sanskrit ndtha ‘lord’. This commonly occurs as the final element of compound personal names, from which it appears to have evolved into a surname.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ñâth is found
(measured from records)Ñâth counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #88 | 242,562 | 1 in 5.5K | 243K | Nath | 253 |
| BD Bangladesh | #46 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Nath | 77 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Nath | 36 |
| US United States | — | 2,570 | 1 in 129K | 3.3K | Nath | 274 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Nath | 30 |
| OM Oman | #266 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Nath | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | #137 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Nath | 10 |
| QA Qatar | #333 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Nath | 17 |
242,562 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ñâth mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu name from Sanskrit ndtha ‘lord’. This commonly occurs as the final element of compound personal names, from which it appears to have evolved into a surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ñâth?
- In India, the national register counted about 243 thousand people named Ñâth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nath. After it come Bangladesh, Indonesia, United States and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ñâth?
- In India, the national register counted 242,562 people named Ñâth, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Ñâth compared with other names?
- In India, Ñâth is the 88th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B1%C3%A2thThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ñâth” — ranked 98th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.