Bhat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Sanskrit, of Indian usage
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Bhat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 51Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 54Kfew records
- NONorway1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
6,666 people
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
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 Sanskrit, of Indian usage
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #570 | 6,666 | 1 in 199K | 6.7K | Bhat | 251 |
| US United States | — | 2,170 | 1 in 153K | 3.5K | Bhat | 280 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Bhat | 27 |
| PK Pakistan | #561 | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Bhat | 20 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Bhat | 2 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Bhat | 14 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Bhat | 38 |
| SE Sweden | — | 88 | 1 in 116K | 88 | Bhat | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | 52 | 1 in 105K | 52 | — | 9 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Suresh Bhatb. 1932INMarathi poet and lyricist from India (1932–2003)
- U. Narayan Bhatb. 1934USIndian mathematician
- Maqbool Bhatb. 1938INKashmiri separatist (1938-1984)
- Rahul Bhatb. 1977INIndian actor
- Arvind Bhatb. 1979INbadminton player
- Tariq Bhatb. 1979INIndian Kashmiri Writer and Director
- Rishi Bhatb. 1982USAmerican entrepreneur, actor
- Vinay Bhatb. 1984USAmerican chess player
- Neil Bhattb. 1987INnot in their usual nameIndian actor
- Asif Tariq Bhatb. 2000INKashmiri novelist
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6.7K | #1,285 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.4K | #216 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,916 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 88 | #7,973 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 52 | #25,241 |
| US United States | wru 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bhatThe 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, “Bhat” — the 570th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.