Mahender
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məhɛndɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahender is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 76th most common given name.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 6.2Kas Mahendra(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 9.4Kas Mahendra
- USUnited States1 in 148Kas Mahendra
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 Mahender 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #745 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- 1 in 675 (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 named Mahendra, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana, as Mahendra
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mahendra in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 6 more.
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)
Mahender 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 891 | 4 | Mahendra | 55 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | Mahendra | 182 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Mahendra | 24 |
| US United States | — | 2,253as Mahendra | 1 in 148K | 2.2K | Mahendra | 265 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #472 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Mahendra | 50 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,111as Mahendra | 1 in 675 | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| QA Qatar | #290 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Mahendra | 12 |
| KW Kuwait | #422 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Mahendra | 14 |
| BH Bahrain | #191 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Mahendra | 8 |
| IN India | #76 | — | — | 1.4K | Mahendra | 273 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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 Mahender?
- A machine transcription gives /məhɛndɝ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Mahender a male or female name?
- Mahender 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 Mahender have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Mahendra in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mahender most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Mahender itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 675 people named Mahendra.
- How common is the name Mahender?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,253 people named Mahendra in 2020, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahender compared with other names?
- In India, Mahender is the 76th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mahender?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahenderThe 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, “Mahender” — the 76th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.