Mohanlal

given name · Latin script

A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries

Pronunciation:

Mohanlal is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

  • INIndia≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 100Kfew records
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.3Mfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈52,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
117 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)

India, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MohanlalLatin(measured from records)
মোহনলালBengali(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

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)

Mohanlal 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 Mohanlal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈52,000 est.≈1 in 28K106Mohanlal117
ZA South Africa≈230 est.≈1 in 282K—Mohanlal25
US United States1091 in 3.1M109Mohanlal80
AE United Arab Emirates≈96 est.≈1 in 115K—Mohanlal7
GB United Kingdom≈54 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Mohanlal44
KW Kuwait≈48 est.≈1 in 103K—Mohanlal3
BH Bahrain≈22 est.≈1 in 74K—Mohanlal2

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)

Mohanlal is also recorded as 2 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 Mohanlāl, Mōhanlāl

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Моханлал, Mohànlal

35 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
Informalनमस्ते Mohanlal जी,Hi Mohanlal, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Mohanlal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—106#27,283
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—93#227
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

Is Mohanlal a male or female name?
Mohanlal is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
In which country does Mohanlal have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Mohanlal in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mohanlal.
How common is the name Mohanlal?
In the United States, the national register counted 109 people named Mohanlal in 2020, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.

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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, “Mohanlal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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