Nâth
surname · Latin script
Nâth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 88th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Hindu name from Sanskrit ndtha ‘lord’. This commonly occurs as the final element of compound personal names, from which it appears to have evolved into a surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 990(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 5.5K
- USUnited States1 in 129K
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)
- #496 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 274 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 990 (inferred from the name graph)
242,562 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nath in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 5 more.
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 name from Sanskrit ndtha ‘lord’. This commonly occurs as the final element of compound personal names, from which it appears to have evolved into a surname.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nâth 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #88 | 242,562 | 1 in 5.5K | 243K | Nath | 253 |
| BD Bangladesh | #46 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 990 | — | Nath | 77 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Nath | 36 |
| US United States | — | 2,570 | 1 in 129K | 3.3K | Nath | 274 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #232 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Nath | 64 |
| OM Oman | #266 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Nath | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | #137 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Nath | 10 |
| QA Qatar | #333 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Nath | 17 |
242,562 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nâth mean, and where does it come from?
- Hindu name from Sanskrit ndtha ‘lord’. This commonly occurs as the final element of compound personal names, from which it appears to have evolved into a surname. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Nâth have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 243 thousand people named Nâth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nath.
- How common is the name Nâth?
- In India, the national register counted 242,562 people named Nâth, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Nâth compared with other names?
- In India, Nâth is the 88th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A2thThe 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, “Nâth” — the 88th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.