Maharaj
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu name, from Sanskrit mahdrdja ‘great king’, derived from a title denoting an accomplished practitioner (a master) of a particular skill or craft (for example singing, drumming, dancing, cooking,
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məhɑːɹɑːdʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maharaj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 85K
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 192K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Moharaj in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Hindu name, from Sanskrit mahdrdja ‘great king’, derived from a title denoting an accomplished practitioner (a master) of a particular skill or craft (for example singing, drumming, dancing, cooking, etc.) or a religious guru.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maharaj 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 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Maharaj | 4 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Moharaj | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 321K | — | Maharaj | 80 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 3.1K | Maharaj | 259 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Maharaj | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Maharaj | 5 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 192K | 11K | — | 52 |
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: This page details common surnames in Trinidad and Tobago, highlighting their cultural diversity and historical significa; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Maharaj 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.
From Sanskrit 'Maharaja' (great king); a Hindu priestly title.
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African surnames
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)
- Gulabrao Maharajb. 1881INHindu saint (1881–1915)
- Mac Maharajb. 1935ZASouth African politician
- Sarat Maharajb. 1951ZASouth African writer
- Rabindranath Maharajb. 1955CATrinidadian-Canadian novelist
- Bhaiyyu Maharajb. 1968INIndian spiritual guru
- Valene Maharajb. 1986TTTrinidad and Tobago model
- Keshav Maharajb. 1990ZASouth African cricketer
- K-Slickb. 1991CAnot in their usual nameCanadian musician
- Akaash MaharajCACanadian peacemaker, athlete, and conservationist
- Ashika MaharajNZhealth policy researcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,994 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,322 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,613 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Maharaj mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu name, from Sanskrit mahdrdja ‘great king’, derived from a title denoting an accomplished practitioner (a master) of a particular skill or craft (for example singing, drumming, dancing, cooking,… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maharaj?
- A machine transcription gives /məhɑːɹɑːdʒ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Maharaj a male or female name?
- Maharaj 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 Maharaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Maharaj in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maharaj.
- How common is the name Maharaj?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5,500 people in China have Maharaj as their first given name, about 1 in 253 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Maharaj?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maharajThe 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, “Maharaj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.