Mahat
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mahat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 7.6K
- NPNepal≈1 in 2.7K
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 Mahat 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
689,356 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
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.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahat 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 | — | 689,356 | 1 in 1.9K | 689K | Mahat | 46 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1 | Mahat | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Mahat | 35 |
| MY Malaysia | #389 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Mahat | 54 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Mahat | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 90as Mahad | 1 in 61K | 668 | — | 3 |
689,356 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Mahat is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In egy, Manuel de Codage transliteration of mꜥḥꜥt.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In btx, to chisel, work with a chisel
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Finnish, nominative plural 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)
- Leyla Mahatb. 1970KZartist, curator, gallery director and associate professor
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 689K | #37 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #28,581 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 27 | #9,215 |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #107 |
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
- In which country does Mahat have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 689 thousand people named Mahat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahat.
- Where is Mahat most common?
- Mahat is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mahat?
- In India, the national register counted 689,356 people named Mahat, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahat compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Mahat is the 389th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mahat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahatThe 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, “Mahat” — the 389th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.