Mahant
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məənt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahant is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 466K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 334K
- CACanada≈1 in 983K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 334K (inferred from the name graph)
2,847 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahant 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 | 2,847 | 1 in 466K | 2.8K | Mahant | 116 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | listed | Mahant | 75 |
| CA Canada | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 983K | — | Mahant | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Mahant | 16 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Mahant | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Mahant | 9 |
2,847 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Mahant 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 English, A head or chief of a monastery.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pi, great, big, massive
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)
- Edelgard Mahantb. 1950CACanadian politician
- Neil MahantAUresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.8K | #2,390 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 68 | #4,843 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Mahant?
- A machine transcription gives /məənt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Mahant have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Mahant, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahant.
- How common is the name Mahant?
- In India, the national register counted 2,847 people named Mahant, about 1 in 466 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mahant?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahantThe 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, “Mahant”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.