Dixit
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Dixit is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit दीक्षित (dīkṣita).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 77Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 80Kfew records
- FIFinland1 in 139K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dixit itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
14,307 named Dikshit
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)From Sanskrit दीक्षित (dīkṣita).
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dixit 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 | #495 | 14,307as Dikshit | 1 in 93K | 14K | Dixit | 241 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Dixit | 18 |
| US United States | — | 1,273 | 1 in 261K | 2.1K | Dixit | 246 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Dixit | 18 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Dixit | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Dixit | 30 |
| FI Finland | — | 40 | 1 in 139K | 40 | — | 4 |
14,307 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling dikshit. 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Dixit is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname from India that is common among Hindu Brahmins in India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, third-person singular perfect active indicative of dīcō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Names the author of a previously quoted statement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Said by
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)- Sheila Dikshitb. 1938INnot in their usual nameIndian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi (1938-2019)
- Avinash Dixitb. 1944INAmerican economist
- Vishva Dixitb. 1956KEKenyan American molecular biologist
- Sandeep Dikshitb. 1964INnot in their usual nameIndian politician
- Madhuri Dixitb. 1967INIndian actress
- Shekhar Dixitb. 1983INIndian farmer
- Alok Dixitb. 1987INJournalist and human rights activist
- Meenakshi Dixitb. 1988INIndian actress
- Aparna Dixitb. 1991INIndian actress
- Neha DixitINIndian journalist
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Dixit mean, and where does it come from?
- From Sanskrit दीक्षित (dīkṣita). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Dixit have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Dikshit, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dixit?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,273 people named Dixit in 2010, about 1 in 261 thousand residents.
- How common is Dixit compared with other names?
- In India, Dixit is the 495th 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/dixitThe 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, “Dixit” — the 495th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.