Mahan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Agni (५); Indra (५); name of several men
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mahan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 22K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 27K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 4.2K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 396 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, 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)
Agni (५); Indra (५); name of several men
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Mahan | 5 |
| US United States | 15,375 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Mahan | 396 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 3.7K | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Mahan | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Mahan | 83 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Mahan | 16 |
| SG Singapore | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Mahan | 3 |
| IS Iceland | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Mahan | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Mahan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Korean, southern polity whose rulers were buried in pottery coffin jars until the 6th century.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Irish; Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Machain ‘descendant of Machdn’, which Woulfe suggests is a variant of Mochdn, a diminutive of moch ‘early’, itself a short form of a name formed with this element, of which there are several, and a variant of Mohan of Kilmacduagh in County Galway.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
great. mighty; powerful; abundant.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Gigante
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Finnish, genitive singular of maha
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)
- Asa Mahanb. 1799USAmerican clergyman
- Dennis Hart Mahanb. 1802USAmerican military academic
- Alfred Thayer Maanb. 1840USnot in their usual nameUnited States Navy admiral and historian (1840–1914)
- Eddie Mahanb. 1892USAmerican football and baseball player and coach (1892-1975)
- Marcella Burkeb. 1896USnot in their usual nameAmerican screenwriter (1896-1970)
- Gerald Mahanb. 1937USAmerican physicist
- David M. Knipeb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican virologist
- Kerrigan Mahanb. 1955USAmerican voice actor
- Shane Mahanb. 1964USAmerican makeup, special effects artist and puppeteer
- Matt Mahanb. 1982USAmerican politician and tech entrepreneur
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 44 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,507 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 3.7K | #150 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Mahan mean, and where does it come from?
- Agni (५); Indra (५); name of several men Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- In which country does Mahan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Mahan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahan.
- How common is the name Mahan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,375 people named Mahan in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahanThe 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, “Mahan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.