Mahato
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mahato is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname.
- INIndia1 in 712(measured from records)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 6.6Kas Mahto
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 14Kas Mehta
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mahato itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #160 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 416 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33 (inferred from the name graph)
1,862,067 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mahto in IN India, KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates and 2 more and Mehta in US United States, GB United Kingdom.
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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahato 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 | #26 | 1,862,067 | 1 in 712 | 1.9M | Mahto | 315 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈910,000 est. | ≈1 in 33 | 2 | Mahto | 25 |
| US United States | — | 14,342as Mehta | 1 in 23K | 19K | Mehta | 416 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Mahato | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Mehta | 175 |
| QA Qatar | #335 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 776 | — | Mahto | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #472 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Mahto | 12 |
| KW Kuwait | #249 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Mahto | 5 |
1,862,067 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling mahato. 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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bhabini Mahatob. 1915INBengali freedom fighter
- Dhananjay Mahatob. 1919INIndian independence activist
- Ram I. Mahatob. 1963NPNepalese-American scientist
- Rita Mahatob. 1975NPwomen's rights activist
- Purnima Mahatob. 1976INIndian archer
- Hari Shankar Mahatob. 1986INresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.9M | #11 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #507 |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #61 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Mahato have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.9 million people named Mahato, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahto.
- How common is the name Mahato?
- In India, the national register counted 1,862,067 people named Mahato, about 1 in 712 residents.
- How common is Mahato compared with other names?
- In India, Mahato is the 26th 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/mahatoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mahato” — the 26th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.