Mahendrarajah

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/məhɛnɖɹəɹædʒə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mahendrarajah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 136K
  • NONorway1 in 607K

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.

Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)

≈630 people, est.

Sources
41 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)

Sri Lanka, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mahendrarajah 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.

Where Mahendrarajah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LK Sri Lanka≈630 est.≈1 in 36K—Mahendrarajah19
CH Switzerland621 in 136K62Mahendrarajah6
GB United Kingdom≈39 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Mahendrarajah34
CA Canada≈37 est.≈1 in 1M—Mahendrarajah41
DE Germany≈24 est.≈1 in 3.4M—Mahendrarajah26
NO Norway91 in 607K9—1
DK Denmark81 in 734K8——
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701Klisted——

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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mahendrarajah is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Mahendra-Rajah

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Mahendrarajah,
InformalHi Mahendrarajah,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Mahendrarajah
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202462#15,845
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—9#58,582
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—8#46,929

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Mahendrarajah?
A machine transcription gives /məhɛnɖɹəɹædʒə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Mahendrarajah have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 627 people named Mahendrarajah in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahendrarajah.
How common is the name Mahendrarajah?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 62 people named Mahendrarajah in 2024, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.

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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, “Mahendrarajah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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