Gajendra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: lord of elephants
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gajendra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 3.1K
- QAQatar≈1 in 15K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
lord of elephants.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gajendra 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 | — | ≈9,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Gajendra | 30 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Gajendra | 15 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Gajendra | 17 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Gajendra | 15 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Gajendra | 9 |
| US United States | — | 166 | 1 in 2M | 164 | Gajendra | 138 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Gajendra | 5 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Gajendra | 6 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Gajendra | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 22 | 1 in 34K | 22 | Gajendra | 1 |
| IN India | #728 | — | — | 152 | Gajendra | 183 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Gajendra Chauhanb. 1956INIndian actor (born 1956)
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 2.8K | #1,597 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 164 | #42,918 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 22 | #572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #42,918 |
| IN India | The Penguin Book of Hindu Names for Boys (Gandhi, 1993) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Gajendra mean, and where does it come from?
- lord of elephants. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Gajendra a male or female name?
- Gajendra is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gajendra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.8 thousand people named Gajendra in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gajendra.
- How common is the name Gajendra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 166 people named Gajendra in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Gajendra compared with other names?
- In India, Gajendra is the 728th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gajendraThe 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, “Gajendra” — the 728th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.