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’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məhæntə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahanta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 253Kas Mohonto(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 442K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 442K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 named Mohonto, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, 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 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.’
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Where in the world(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 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Mohonto | 21 |
| IN India | #404 | 5,236as Mohonto | 1 in 253K | 5.2K | Mahanta | 142 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 442K | — | Mahanta | 18 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 495K | #481,031 | มะหันตะ | 24 |
| US United States | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Mahanta | 85 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | 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)
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 758 | #6,762 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 518 | #376 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #274,957 |
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).
- How do you pronounce Mahanta?
- A machine transcription gives /məhæntə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- 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.’
- In which country does Mahanta have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Mohonto in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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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Query this name via API
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 2026-10-10.