Awasthi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɔasθi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Awasthi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 880K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 1.3M
- NPNepal≈1 in 12K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Awasthi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Awasthi | 30 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Awasthi | 9 |
| IN India | #846 | 1,059 | 1 in 1.3M | 1.1K | Awasthi | 191 |
| US United States | — | 378 | 1 in 880K | 730 | Awasthi | 186 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Awasthi | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Awasthi | 24 |
| NO Norway | — | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 5 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1 | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- Malini Awasthib. 1967INIndian singer
- Kenisha Awasthib. 1993INIndian actress
- Shailesh AwasthiINIndian cinematographer
- Arun AwasthiINresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-5313-1125
- A.M. AwasthiINresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7345-2038
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.1K | #424 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.1K | #5,230 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 730 | #33,564 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 378 | #54,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 153 | #107,565 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #41,215 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #72,216 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #4,790 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #7,657 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Awasthi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔasθi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Awasthi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Awasthi in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled awasthi.
- How common is the name Awasthi?
- In India, the national register counted 1,059 people named Awasthi, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Awasthi compared with other names?
- In India, Awasthi is the 846th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Awasthi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/awasthiThe 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, “Awasthi” — the 846th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.