Mahadeva

given name · Latin script

Meaning: the great oe

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mahadeva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 395K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.3M
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1.3M

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈110 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
92 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 395K (inferred from the name graph)

Kuwait, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MahadevaLatin(measured from records)
මහාදෙවSinhala(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)

the great oe

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mahadeva 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 Mahadeva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈110 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Mahadeva8
US United States≈55 est.≈1 in 6.1MlistedMahadeva90
MY Malaysia≈25 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Mahadeva8
ZA South Africa≈18 est.≈1 in 3.1M—Mahadeva3
DE Germany≈16 est.≈1 in 5M—Mahadeva13
AU Australia≈12 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Mahadeva27
KW Kuwait≈8 est.≈1 in 395K—Mahadeva4
CH Switzerland≈7 est.≈1 in 1.3M16—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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

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

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mahadēva, Mahādeva

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Махадёва, Махадева, Mahādeva, Makhadėva

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India

    Also written Mahādeva

  • Polish name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mahadewa

26 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Mahadeva
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202416#43,070
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mahadeva mean, and where does it come from?
the great oe Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
Is Mahadeva a male or female name?
Mahadeva 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 Mahadeva have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 114 people named Mahadeva in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahadeva.
How common is the name Mahadeva?
Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in Indonesia have Mahadeva as their first given name, about 1 in 2.3 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Mahadeva”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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