Mahadev
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Mahadev is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 150Kfew records
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 340Kfew records
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 Mahadev itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈750,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, 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 Mohadeb in BD Bangladesh.
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)männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit. mahä »groß« + sanskrit. deva »Gott«: »der große Gott«), ein Name Schi- was.
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mahadev 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 | #145 | ≈750,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 1.5K | Mahadev | 175 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 189K | listed | Mohadeb | 14 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 975K | — | Mahadev | 7 |
| US United States | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 8 | Mahadev | 116 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Mahadev | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Mahadev | 10 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Mahadev | 4 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Mahadev | 5 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Mahadev | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 4 |
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; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)- M. V. Dhurandharb. 1867INnot in their usual nameIndian painter (1867–1944)
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mahadev a male or female name?
- Mahadev is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset).
- What does the name Mahadev mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit.
- In which country does Mahadev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 754 thousand people named Mahadev in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahadev.
- How common is the name Mahadev?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 16 people named Mahadev, about 1 in 638 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahadev compared with other names?
- In India, Mahadev is the 145th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names 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/mahadevThe 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, “Mahadev” — the 145th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.