Vashist
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Vashist is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 586 people, counted by Instate.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 870Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 2.3M
- USUnited States1 in 3.3M
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
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 554K (inferred from the name graph)
586 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Vashist is found
(measured from records)Vashist 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 | 586 | 1 in 2.3M | 586 | Vashist | 118 |
| US United States | 102 | 1 in 3.3M | 126 | Vashist | 112 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 967K | — | Vashist | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 868K | — | Vashist | 24 |
| DE Germany | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Vashist | 20 |
| CA Canada | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Vashist | 23 |
| SG Singapore | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 554K | — | Vashist | 4 |
586 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Puneet Vashistb. 1976INIndian actor
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vashist?
- In India, the national register counted about 586 people named Vashist, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vashist. After it come United States, Malaysia, Australia and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vashist?
- In India, the national register counted 586 people named Vashist, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Vashist?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vashistThe 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, “Vashist” — ranked 8219th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.