Mahanta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A stone image of the Buddha set up in the Paṭimāvihāra in Kāṇagāma by Aggabodhi, son of Mahātissa and ruler of Rohaṇa’ (Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Mahanta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Mahanta is also written মহন্ত in Bengali and มะหันตะ in Thai.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 540K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.2Mfew records
- USUnited States≈1 in 4.5Mfew 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 Mahanta 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 536K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,700 named Mohonto, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mahanta in other scripts: Bengali and Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mohonto in BD Bangladesh and มะหันตะ in TH Thailand.
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)A stone image of the Buddha set up in the Paṭimāvihāra in Kāṇagāma by Aggabodhi, son of Mahātissa and ruler of Rohaṇa.’ Mahantapariveṇa.—A monastic building erected by a corporation (puga) in Bandhumatī in the time of Vipassī Buddha.’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Where the surname Mahanta is found
(measured from records)Mahanta 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #334 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Mohonto | 21 |
| IN India | #404 | 5,236as Mohonto | 1 in 253K | 5.2K | Mahanta | 142 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 790K | — | Mahanta | 18 |
| US United States | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | — | Mahanta | 85 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | register #481,031 | มะหันตะ | 24 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Mahanta | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 536K | listed | — | 1 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Mahanta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
great
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mahanta come from?
- A stone image of the Buddha set up in the Paṭimāvihāra in Kāṇagāma by Aggabodhi, son of Mahātissa and ruler of Rohaṇa.’ Mahantapariveṇa.—A monastic building erected by a corporation (puga) in Bandhu… Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
- What does the name Mahanta mean?
- Recorded meaning: A stone image of the Buddha set up in the Paṭimāvihāra in Kāṇagāma by Aggabodhi, son of Mahātissa and ruler of Rohaṇa.’
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mahanta?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Mohonto in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Indonesia, United States and Thailand; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mahanta?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Mahanta in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
- How common is Mahanta compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Mahanta is the 334th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahantaThe 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, “Mahanta” — the 334th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.