Mitra

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Hindu (Kayasth) name, from Sanskrit mitra ‘friend’, ‘ally’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mitra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • INIndia1 in 13K
  • USUnited States1 in 170K

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 Mitra 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.

India (measured from records)

101,537 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
259 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Bangladesh, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MitraLatin(measured from records)
মিত্রBengali(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 (Kayasth) name, from Sanskrit mitra ‘friend’, ‘ally’. Mitra is the name of an important deity in the Vedas; the name also refers to the sun as a deity.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mitra 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.

Where Mitra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#437101,5371 in 13K102KMitra221
BD Bangladesh#205≈35,000 est.≈1 in 4.7KlistedMitra70
PH Philippines—≈7,400 est.≈1 in 15K—Mitra35
US United States—1,9581 in 170K2.6KMitra259
AR Argentina—1,008as Mitre1 in 45K1K——
HR Croatia—380as Mitar1 in 11K380——
CR Costa Rica—271as Mitre1 in 19K271——

101,537 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mitra is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mītrā, Mitrā

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mītrā, Mitrā

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Mexico, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mîtrá, Mìtrã

  • Persian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Iran, Afghanistan, India

    Also written Mītrā

  • Bulgarian given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, India, United States, Iran

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Митра, Mithra

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mitra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A person who is interested in becoming a Buddhist and elects to join a Buddhist community to learn more.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Agni (V); Indra (V); name of several men (P);

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • La que pactó con el Ser Supremo

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • friend; companion; associate.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • god of daylight

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

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)

18001850190019502000Rajendralal Mitra, b. 1824Dinabandhu Mitra, b. 1830Sisir Kumar Mitra, b. 1890Premendra Mitra, b. 1904Sombhu Mitra, b. 1915Subrata Mitra, b. 1930Sugata Mitra, b. 1952Abhas Mitra, b. 1955Rhona Mitra, b. 1976Anirban Mitra, b. 1981

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 78 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Mitra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—102K#179
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.6K#11,567
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102K#15,066
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,456
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—13—

Reference works 11

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

What does the name Mitra mean?
Recorded meaning: Hindu (Kayasth) name, from Sanskrit mitra ‘friend’, ‘ally’.
Where does the name Mitra come from?
Hindu (Kayasth) name, from Sanskrit mitra ‘friend’, ‘ally’. Mitra is the name of an important deity in the Vedas; the name also refers to the sun as a deity. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Mitra have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 102 thousand people named Mitra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mitra.
How common is the name Mitra?
In India, the national register counted 101,537 people named Mitra, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
How common is Mitra compared with other names?
In India, Mitra is the 437th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mitra” — the 437th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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