Bhardwaj

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bhardwaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi भारद्वाज (bhāradvāj).

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 67K(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia1 in 102K
  • USUnited States1 in 211K

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.

India (measured from records)

12,940 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
295 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)

United Arab Emirates, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BhardwajLatin(measured from records)
ভরদ্বাজBengali(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(measured from records)

Borrowed from Hindi भारद्वाज (bhāradvāj).

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bhardwaj 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 Bhardwaj is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#39312,9401 in 102K13KBhardwaj264
ID Indonesia—≈5,100 est.≈1 in 53K—Bhardwaj14
US United States—1,5801 in 211K2.7KBhardwaj295
AE United Arab Emirates#526≈1,100 est.≈1 in 8.9K—Bhardwaj64
GB United Kingdom—≈980 est.≈1 in 67K—Bhardwaj127
OM Oman—≈210 est.≈1 in 22K—Bhardwaj8
QA Qatar—≈130 est.≈1 in 18K—Bhardwaj15
KW Kuwait—≈120 est.≈1 in 24K—Bhardwaj15
BH Bahrain—≈76 est.≈1 in 20K—Bhardwaj7

12,940 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).

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

Bhardwaj is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bhārdwaj, Bhãrdwåj, Bhärdwäj, Bhårdwåj, Bhárdwåj

  • Norwegian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Bhãrdwãj, Bhärdwāj, Bhårdwäj

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Poland

    Also written Bhãŕďwāj

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Бхардвадж

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Dinesh C. Bhardwaj, b. 1923Suresh Bhardwaj, b. 1952Vishal Bhardwaj, b. 1965Anil Bhardwaj, b. 1967Arun Bhardwaj, b. 1969Mohini Bhardwaj, b. 1978Soom T, b. 1979Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj, b. 1986amit sidana, b. 1987Gayatri Bhardwaj, b. 1995

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 25 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Bhardwaj
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—19K#72
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—13K#840
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.7K#11,216
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.6K#17,734
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000834#27,258
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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

What does the name Bhardwaj mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Hindi भारद्वाज (bhāradvāj). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Bhardwaj have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Bhardwaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bhardwaj.
How common is the name Bhardwaj?
In India, the national register counted 12,940 people named Bhardwaj, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
How common is Bhardwaj compared with other names?
In India, Bhardwaj is the 393rd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bhardwaj” — the 393rd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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