Malhotra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu (Khatri) name based on the name of a clan in the Khatri community
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌmæɫˈhɑtɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malhotra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 33K
- INIndia1 in 56K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
23,709 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
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(measured from records)
Hindu (Khatri) name based on the name of a clan in the Khatri community. It is a modified form of Mehrotra, which is itself an extended form of Mehra (Panjabi merd ‘chief’, ‘master’). The founder of the Malhotra clan is said to have been called Mehr Chand.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malhotra 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 | #680 | 23,709 | 1 in 56K | 24K | Malhotra | 269 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Malhotra | 39 |
| US United States | — | 3,206 | 1 in 104K | 4.5K | Malhotra | 333 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Malhotra | 24 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Malhotra | 116 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #521 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Malhotra | 75 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Malhotra | 124 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Malhotra | 50 |
23,709 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Ravish Malhotrab. 1943INIndian astronaut
- Pavan Malhotrab. 1958INIndian actor
- Renu Malhotrab. 1961USAmerican planetary scientist
- Manish Malhotrab. 1966INIndian fashion designer
- Seema Malhotrab. 1972GBBritish politician (born 1972)
- Punit Malhotrab. 1982INIndian film director
- Sidharth Malhotrab. 1986INIndian Actor (born 1986)
- Sanya Malhotrab. 1992INIndian actress
- Harshaali Malhotrab. 2008INIndian child actress
- Karan MalhotraINfilm director
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 27 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 24K | #531 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 19K | #74 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,117 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,046 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,226 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Malhotra come from?
- Hindu (Khatri) name based on the name of a clan in the Khatri community. It is a modified form of Mehrotra, which is itself an extended form of Mehra (Panjabi merd ‘chief’, ‘master’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Malhotra?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌmæɫˈhɑtɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Malhotra mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hindu (Khatri) name based on the name of a clan in the Khatri community.
- In which country does Malhotra have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Malhotra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malhotra.
- How common is the name Malhotra?
- In India, the national register counted 23,709 people named Malhotra, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
- How common is Malhotra compared with other names?
- In India, Malhotra is the 680th 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/malhotraThe 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, “Malhotra” — the 680th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.