Mahto
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Mahto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common surname.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 12K
- INIndia1 in 712as Mahato
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 Mahto itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #160 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 416 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,862,067 named Mahato
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mehta in US United States, GB United Kingdom and Mahato in BD Bangladesh, ID Indonesia.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mahto 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 | #26 | 1,862,067as Mahato | 1 in 712 | 1.9M | Mahto | 315 |
| US United States | — | 14,342as Mehta | 1 in 23K | 19K | Mehta | 416 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Mahato | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Mehta | 175 |
| BD Bangladesh | #525 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Mahato | 19 |
| QA Qatar | #335 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 776 | — | Mahto | 6 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #472 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Mahto | 12 |
| OM Oman | #615 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Mahto | 3 |
| KW Kuwait | #249 | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Mahto | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 62 | 1 in 12K | 62 | Mahto | 1 |
1,862,067 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling mahato. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Mahto 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 Finnish, possibility, chance
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tri, fire
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Mahto have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.9 million people named Mahato, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mahto?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 62 people named Mahto in 2025, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahto compared with other names?
- In India, Mahto is the 26th most common surname of 1,492,515 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/mahtoThe 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, “Mahto” — the 26th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.