Mehra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Panjabi mehrd ‘chief’, ‘master’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mehra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common surname.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.1Kas Maher(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.7Kas Maher
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.6Kas Maher
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 Mehra 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 444 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈95,000 named Maher, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maher in US United States, EG Egypt, AU Australia and 1 more, Mera in EC Ecuador and Meher in PK Pakistan.
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)
from Panjabi mehrd ‘chief’, ‘master’. Compare MalHOTRA.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mehra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #30 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Maher | 139 |
| PK Pakistan | #409 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Meher | 48 |
| IN India | #321 | 64,693as Meher | 1 in 20K | 65K | Mehra | 238 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 52,343as Mera | 1 in 323 | 52K | Mera | 4 |
| US United States | — | 23,222as Maher | 1 in 14K | 23K | Maher | 444 |
| AU Australia | #282 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 2 | Maher | 190 |
| IE Ireland | #110 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Maher | 143 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Mehra | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 81 | 1 in 126K | 1.5K | — | 41 |
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; INEC — civil registry names; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
- Raj Mehrab. 1913INactor
- Om Prakash Mehrab. 1919INIndian Chief of Air Staff (1919–2015)
- Prakash Mehrab. 1939INFilm producer and director (1939–2009)
- Vinod Mehrab. 1945INIndian actor (1945-1990)
- Umesh Mehrab. 1953INIndian film director
- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehrab. 1963INIndian film director
- Karan Mehrab. 1982INIndian actor
- Soniya Mehrab. 1988INIndian actress
- Nitya MehraINIndian film director
- Preeti MehraINIndian actress
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 21K | #595 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 11K | #125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #14,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 932 | #25,006 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 81 | #8,536 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2001 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Mehra come from?
- from Panjabi mehrd ‘chief’, ‘master’. Compare MalHOTRA. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mehra?
- A machine transcription gives /mɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Mehra mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Panjabi mehrd ‘chief’, ‘master’.
- In which country does Mehra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 95 thousand people named Maher in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mehra?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 81 people named Mehra, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
- How common is Mehra compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Mehra is the 30th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mehra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mehraThe 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, “Mehra” — the 30th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.