Madhav
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: a byname of Krishna, meaning ‘descendant of MaDHU’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mədhɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Madhav is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 281K(measured from records)
- NPNepal≈1 in 2.6K
- QAQatar≈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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Madhav 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, 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 Madhab in BD Bangladesh, QA Qatar, AE United Arab Emirates.
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)
Sanskrit: a byname of Krishna, meaning ‘descendant of MaDHU’. Feminine form: Madhavi (a byname of the goddess Lakshmi).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madhav 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 | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Madhav | 55 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Madhab | 22 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Madhav | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,185 | 1 in 281K | 1.2K | Madhav | 239 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Madhav | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Madhab | 4 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Madhab | 6 |
| IN India | #567 | — | — | 488 | Madhav | 208 |
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. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Madhav is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit. mädhava »frühlingshaft«), Bei name Krischnas und Schiwas.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In English, A male given name from Hindi of Indian usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- M. P. Panditb. 1918INnot in their usual nameIndian Spiritual author, teacher and Sanskrit scholar (1918-1993)
- Madhav Vaman Panditb. 1935Indian educationist (1935–2017)
- Madhav Vazeb. 1939INIndian actor
- Madhav Gadgilb. 1942INIndian ecologist, writer, environmental activist
- Madhav Balkrishna Nagarkarb. 1951lichenologist
- Madhavraje Patwardhanb. 2000GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer, law student, and Crown Prince of Miraj Senior State
- Madhav BhatiaINNew Zealand-based pharmacologist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 5.8K | #914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,998 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 35 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 29 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Madhav come from?
- Sanskrit: a byname of Krishna, meaning ‘descendant of MaDHU’. Feminine form: Madhavi (a byname of the goddess Lakshmi). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Madhav?
- A machine transcription gives /mədhɑv/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Madhav mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: a byname of Krishna, meaning ‘descendant of MaDHU’.
- Is Madhav a male or female name?
- Madhav 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.
- What are other forms of the name Madhav?
- In the etymology graph, Madhava is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Madhav have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Madhav in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madhav.
- How common is the name Madhav?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,185 people named Madhav in 2020, about 1 in 281 thousand residents.
- How common is Madhav compared with other names?
- In India, Madhav is the 567th 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/madhavThe 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, “Madhav” — the 567th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.