Bhargava
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bhargava is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit भार्गव (bhārgava, “descendant of Bhrgu”), via various Indian languages.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 95K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 169K
- USUnited States1 in 257K
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 Bhargava 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
11,287 named Bhargav
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bhargav in IN India, ID Indonesia.
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)
From Sanskrit भार्गव (bhārgava, “descendant of Bhrgu”), via various Indian languages.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bhargava 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 | — | 11,287as Bhargav | 1 in 117K | 11K | Bhargav | 223 |
| AO Angola | #443 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Bhargava | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Bhargav | 5 |
| US United States | — | 1,295 | 1 in 257K | 1.9K | Bhargava | 265 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 169K | listed | Bhargava | 72 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Bhargava | 11 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Bhargava | 85 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Bhargava | 29 |
| NO Norway | — | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | — | 9 |
11,287 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Thakurdas Bhargavab. 1886INIndian politician (1886-1962)
- Mukat Behari Lal Bhargavab. 1903INpolitician and member of the Lok Sabha
- Vijay Bhargavab. 1948CACanadian engineer
- Manjul Bhargavab. 1974CAIndo-Canadian mathematician
- Anamika Bhargavab. 1989USAmerican tennis player
- Rohit Bhargavab. 2000USIndian American bioengineering researcher
- Reeta BhargavaUSprofessor of clinical family medicine
- Ravindranath BhargavaINIndian politician
- Anurag BhargavaINresearcher
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 26 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2K | #431 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,788 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.4K | #4,245 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,491 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 779 | #28,751 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 50 | #26,117 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Bhargava mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sanskrit भार्गव (bhārgava, “descendant of Bhrgu”), via various Indian languages. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bhargava have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Bhargav, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bhargava?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,295 people named Bhargava in 2010, about 1 in 257 thousand residents.
- How common is Bhargava compared with other names?
- In Angola, Bhargava is the 443rd most common surname of 23,432 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bhargavaThe 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, “Bhargava” — the 443rd most common surname in Angola. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.