Mittal

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Hindu (Bania) and Jain name based on the name of a clan in the Agarwal Bania community, probably derived from Sanskrit mitra ‘friend’, ‘ally’ (see Mitra)

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

/ˌmɪˈtɑɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 35K(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 53K
  • USUnited States1 in 186K

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)

37,424 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
307 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Malaysia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MittalLatin(measured from records)
মিত্তালBengali(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 (Bania) and Jain name based on the name of a clan in the Agarwal Bania community, probably derived from Sanskrit mitra ‘friend’, ‘ally’ (see Mitra).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mittal 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 Mittal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#50737,4241 in 35K37KMittal261
CN China—≈5,300 est.≈1 in 264K—Mittal12
ID Indonesia—≈4,900 est.≈1 in 54K—Mittal14
US United States—1,7931 in 186K3.1KMittal307
MY Malaysia—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 29K—Mittal17
AU Australia—≈480 est.≈1 in 53K—Mittal81
SG Singapore—≈190 est.≈1 in 32K—Mittal37

37,424 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mittal is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Russia, Croatia

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Миттал, Mital, Міттал, Митал

  • Thai surname7 spellings in the group

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

    Also written มิททัล, Mitthan, มททล, มททัล

37 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000K. L. Mittal, b. 1945Sunil Mittal, b. 1957Gita Mittal, b. 1958Anoop Kumar Mittal, b. 1960Anupam Mittal, b. 1971Anuradha Mittal, b. 1977Aditi Mittal, b. 1987Madhur Mittal, b. 1991

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)

Formalआदरणीय Mittal जी,Respected Mittal ji, (English)
Informalआदरणीय Mittal जी,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Mittal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—37K#390
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—17K#83
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.1K#10,014
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.8K#16,136
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000889#25,945
US United Stateswru 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
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Mittal mean, and where does it come from?
Hindu (Bania) and Jain name based on the name of a clan in the Agarwal Bania community, probably derived from Sanskrit mitra ‘friend’, ‘ally’ (see Mitra). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Mittal?
A machine transcription gives /ˌmɪˈtɑɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Mittal have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Mittal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mittal.
How common is the name Mittal?
In India, the national register counted 37,424 people named Mittal, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
How common is Mittal compared with other names?
In India, Mittal is the 507th 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, “Mittal” — the 507th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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