Bhat

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A surname from Sanskrit, of Indian usage

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 153K(measured from records)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 175K
  • INIndia1 in 199K

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)

6,666 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
280 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

United Arab Emirates, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BhatLatin(measured from records)
บาท์ธThai(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 Sanskrit, of Indian usage

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bhat 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 Bhat is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#5706,6661 in 199K6.7KBhat251
ID Indonesia—≈5,000 est.≈1 in 53K—Bhat27
AO Angola—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 14K—Bhat3
US United States—2,1701 in 153K3.5KBhat280
PK Pakistan#561≈1,300 est.≈1 in 175K—Bhat20
AE United Arab Emirates—≈870 est.≈1 in 11K—Bhat2
MY Malaysia—≈570 est.≈1 in 58K—Bhat14
SG Singapore—≈160 est.≈1 in 39K—Bhat38

6,666 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)

Bhat is also recorded as 5 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 Bhaṭ

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bhāt, Bhąť, Bhät

  • Arabic surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written Bhãţ, Bhăt, Bháť, Bhãt, Bhàt

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bhåt, Bhäť

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Bhåt

45 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Suresh Bhat, b. 1932U. Narayan Bhat, b. 1934Maqbool Bhat, b. 1938Rahul Bhat, b. 1977Arvind Bhat, b. 1979Tariq Bhat, b. 1979Rishi Bhat, b. 1982Vinay Bhat, b. 1984Neil Bhatt, b. 1987Asif Tariq Bhat, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Bhat
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—6.7K#1,285
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—5.4K#216
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.5K#8,961
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.2K#13,916
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,916
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Bhat mean, and where does it come from?
A surname from Sanskrit, of Indian usage Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bhat have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Bhat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bhat.
How common is the name Bhat?
In India, the national register counted 6,666 people named Bhat, about 1 in 199 thousand residents.
How common is Bhat compared with other names?
In India, Bhat is the 570th 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, “Bhat” — the 570th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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