In the world, มหันต์ (Mahan 
, Mahanty 
, Mahunta ) is a common primarily masculine, but very seldom female forename. The forename มหันต์ is habitual in Japan, where it is quite a rare boy's name, India, where it is quite a rare predominantly boy's, but very infrequently female name, and Iran. More frequently, มหันต์ is the last name as well as the forename.