Prajapati

surname · Latin script

Meaning: lord of creation; father; king

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 26K
  • CACanada≈1 in 76K

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)

113,233 people

#654 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
252 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PrajapatiLatin(measured from records)
প্রজাপতBengali(measured from records)
ปราจาปาตThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Prajapat in CN China.

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)

lord of creation; father; king.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where in the world(measured from records)

Prajapati 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 Prajapati is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#112113,2331 in 12K113KPrajapati252
ID Indonesia—≈3,400 est.≈1 in 78K—Prajapati10
CN China—≈2,600 est.≈1 in 528K—Prajapat6
US United States—1,0291 in 323K2.2KPrajapati231
AU Australia—≈970 est.≈1 in 26K—Prajapati93
CA Canada—≈500 est.≈1 in 76K—Prajapati73
TN Tunisia—≈170 est.≈1 in 70K—Prajapati1

113,233 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)

Prajapati is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Prajāpati

  • Nepali surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nepal, India

    Also written Prajāpati

  • Bangla surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bangladesh

    Languages: Bangla, Odia

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Prãjãpãti

43 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Prajapati 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 deity, later identified with Brahma.

    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)

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 श्री Prajapati जी,Respected Prajapati ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Prajapati जी,Hi Prajapati, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Prajapati
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—113K#170
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3.6K#276
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.2K#13,379
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101K#24,352
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000395#49,869
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Prajapati mean, and where does it come from?
lord of creation; father; king. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
How do you pronounce Prajapati?
A machine transcription gives /pɹədʒpɑti/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Prajapati have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 113 thousand people named Prajapati, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prajapati.
Where is Prajapati most common?
Prajapati is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Prajapati?
In India, the national register counted 113,233 people named Prajapati, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Prajapati compared with other names?
In India, Prajapati is the 112th 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, “Prajapati” — the 112th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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