Sahota
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Punjabi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səoʊtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sahota is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 25K
- USUnited States1 in 236K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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(measured from records)
A surname from Punjabi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sahota 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 4.2K | Sahota | 159 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Sahota | 139 |
| US United States | — | 1,412 | 1 in 236K | 1.8K | Sahota | 234 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Sahota | 3 |
| IN India | — | 652 | 1 in 2M | 652 | Sahota | 91 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Sahota | 20 |
| BH Bahrain | #878 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sahota | 2 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Sahota | 4 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kuldip Sahota, Baron Sahotab. 1951GBBritish politician (born 1951)
- Patty Sahotab. 1969CACanadian politician (1969–2024)
- Jag Sahotab. 1978CACanadian politician
- Opinder Sahotab. 2000GBresearcher
- Ruby SahotaCACanadian politician
- Amrik SahotaUSgeneticist at Rutgers University
- Onkar SahotaGBBritish politician
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 4.2K | #1,895 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 879 | #26,163 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 652 | #7,534 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 156 | #2,740 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #4,257 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sahota mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sahota?
- A machine transcription gives /səoʊtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sahota have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Sahota in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sahota.
- How common is the name Sahota?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,412 people named Sahota in 2010, about 1 in 236 thousand residents.
- How common is Sahota compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Sahota is the 878th most common surname of 8,798 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/sahotaThe 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, “Sahota” — the 878th most common surname in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.