Mahachan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mahachan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Mahachan is also written มหาจัน in Thai.
- NPNepal≈1 in 740as Maharjan(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 11Kfew recordsas Maharjan
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 16Kfew recordsas Mahajan
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 Mahachan 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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 276 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 742 (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 named Maharjan, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Maharjan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mahachan in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mahajan in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 1 more and Maharjan in NP Nepal, AE United Arab Emirates, QA Qatar.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mahachan is found
(measured from records)Mahachan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 742 | 3 | Maharjan | 104 |
| IN India | #430 | 20,635as Mahajan | 1 in 64K | 21K | Mahajan | 272 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Mahajan | 19 |
| US United States | — | 1,794as Mahajan | 1 in 185K | 3K | Mahajan | 276 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Mahajan | 18 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #893 | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Maharjan | 30 |
| QA Qatar | #730 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Maharjan | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 236as Maharjan | 1 in 25K | 236 | — | 2 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mahachan a male or female name?
- Mahachan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mahachan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Maharjan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Indonesia, United States and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mahachan?
- In India, the national register counted 20,635 people named Mahajan, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahachan compared with other names?
- In India, Mahachan is the 430th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahachanThe 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, “Mahachan” — ranked 37th in Nepal (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.