Mahajan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu (chiefly Bania) name, from Hindi mohdjan ‘merchant’, ‘banker’, ‘moneylender’, from Sanskrit mahd ‘great’ +janas ‘person’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Mahajan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Mahajan is also written มหาจัน in Thai.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 16Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 25Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 42Kfew records
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 Mahajan 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 16K (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
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mahajan in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled 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
(measured from records)- Hindimohdjan(measured from records)
- Sanskritmahd(measured from records)
Hindu (chiefly Bania) name, from Hindi mohdjan ‘merchant’, ‘banker’, ‘moneylender’, from Sanskrit mahd ‘great’ +janas ‘person’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mahajan is found
(measured from records)Mahajan 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 | 20,635 | 1 in 64K | 21K | Mahajan | 272 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Mahajan | 19 |
| US United States | — | 1,794 | 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mahajan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from Marathi.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Swapneel Arvind Mahajanb. 1974USPh.D. Cornell University 2002
- Shital Mahajanb. 1982INIndian skydiver
- Anoop Sharad MahajanGBresearcher
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mahajan mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu (chiefly Bania) name, from Hindi mohdjan ‘merchant’, ‘banker’, ‘moneylender’, from Sanskrit mahd ‘great’ +janas ‘person’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mahajan?
- 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 Mahajan?
- In India, the national register counted 20,635 people named Mahajan, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahajan compared with other names?
- In India, Mahajan 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/mahajanThe 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, “Mahajan” — ranked 37th in Nepal (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.