Mandalá
surname · Latin script
Mandalá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sanskrit मण्डल (máṇḍala). Doublet of mandal.
- ITItaly≈1 in 79Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 300K
- BEBelgium1 in 451K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
4,419 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mandala in IN India, US United States and Mandalà in IT Italy.
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)Borrowed from Sanskrit मण्डल (máṇḍala). Doublet of mandal.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mandalá 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 | 4,419 | 1 in 300K | 4.4K | Mandala | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 79K | listed | Mandalà | 33 |
| US United States | 588 | 1 in 566K | 755 | Mandala | 27 |
| PL Poland | 66 | 1 in 580K | 34 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 26 | 1 in 451K | 26 | — | 1 |
4,419 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 Mandalá mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sanskrit मण्डल (máṇḍala). Doublet of mandal. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Mandalá have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Mandalá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mandala.
- How common is the name Mandalá?
- In India, the national register counted 4,419 people named Mandalá, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mandal%C3%A1The 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, “Mandalá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.