Makwana
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mewɑnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Makwana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 102K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 456K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 33K
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
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
2,908 people
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Makwana 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 | #730 | 2,908 | 1 in 456K | 2.9K | Makwana | 192 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Makwana | 19 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 209K | — | Makwana | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Makwana | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Makwana | 100 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Makwana | 60 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Makwana | 5 |
2,908 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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mahima Makwanab. 1999INIndian actress
- Kamlesh Madhusudan Makwanab. 2000INresearcher
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.9K | #2,350 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 104 | #3,605 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 31 | #2,052 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 26 | #672 |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Makwana?
- A machine transcription gives /mewɑnə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Makwana have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Makwana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled makwana.
- How common is the name Makwana?
- In India, the national register counted 2,908 people named Makwana, about 1 in 456 thousand residents.
- How common is Makwana compared with other names?
- In India, Makwana is the 730th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/makwanaThe 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, “Makwana” — the 730th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.