Matharu
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
Matharu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Matharu is also written মাথার in Bengali.
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 41K
- CACanada≈1 in 94K
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 Matharu 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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Matharu in other scripts: Bengali
(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Matharu is found
(measured from records)Matharu 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 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Matharu | 151 |
| CA Canada | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Matharu | 93 |
| US United States | 320 | 1 in 1M | 417 | Matharu | 171 |
| KE Kenya | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Matharu | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Matharu | 16 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Matharu | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)- Professor Surinder Singh Matharub. 1969INBritish scholar of Indian music, philosophy, and naad yoga
- Taran Matharub. 1990GBwriter from the United Kingdom
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Matharu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Matharu in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled matharu. After it come Canada, United States, Kenya and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Matharu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Matharu is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Matharu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 320 people named Matharu in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matharuThe 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, “Matharu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.