Mahra
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məhɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 111K(measured from records)
- SESweden≈1 in 280K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 524K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
11,904 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. Değerli kimse. 2. Elverişli uygun şey.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahra 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.
11,904 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; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)
Mahra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Değerli kimse. 2. Elverişli uygun şey.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Latvian, Novads un tauta Hadramūtas krastā Arābijas dienvidu nomales zemienē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Mahra Al Maktoumb. 1994AEEmirati princess (born 1994)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 12K | #885 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #9,665 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Mahra?
- A machine transcription gives /məhɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Mahra have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Mahra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahra.
- Where is Mahra most common?
- Mahra is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 111 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mahra?
- In India, the national register counted 11,904 people named Mahra, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahraThe 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, “Mahra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.