Mohan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mohan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 75th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Irish Gaelic Ó Mocháin, ‘descendant of Mochán’.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 5.4K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 16K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #727 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 340 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 462 (inferred from the name graph)
≈66,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mohon in BD Bangladesh.
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 Irish Gaelic Ó Mocháin, ‘descendant of Mochán’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mohan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈66,000 est. | ≈1 in 462 | — | Mohan | 80 |
| CN China | — | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Mohan | 39 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Mohan | 94 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Mohon | 40 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #518 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Mohan | 52 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 533 | Mohan | 67 |
| AO Angola | #818 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Mohan | 6 |
| US United States | — | 3,514 | 1 in 95K | 7.7K | Mohan | 340 |
| SG Singapore | #565 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Mohan | 82 |
| IN India | #75 | — | — | 20K | Mohan | 313 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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)
Mohan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
cendant of Mochdn', a personal name from a dim. of mock early, timely. It has been occasionally translated into Eng¬ lish as E.'IRLY. Cpds: Moberg (‘dune hill’); Mogren (‘dune branch’, ornamental). Vars.: Mizon see Mizen ornamental surname from this word. O’Mochaine, (0’)Mo(u)ghan(e), O’Moon, Mo(w)en, Moan, Moon, M.wghan, Vaughan. Moan see Mohan
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Mochain ‘descendant of Mochdn’, a personal name from a diminutive of moch ‘early’, ‘timely’. In Connacht this name was changed to Mahon; it is also found translated into English as Early. It has been used to represent the Norman habitational surname de Mohun.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Sanskrit: ‘enchanting’, a byname of Shiva and of one of the five arrows of Kama, the god of love. It is also an epithet of Krishna, who beguiles the cowherdesses and enchants his devotees. Feminine form: Mohana.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
cendant of Mo chan , a personal name from a dim. of moch early, timely. It has been occasionally translated into Eng¬ lish as Early. Moita Monclus 371 Vars.: O’Mochaine, (0’)Mo(u)ghan(e), O’Moon, Moohan, Mo(w)en, Moan, Moon, Maughan, Vaughan.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit. mohana »der Bezaubernde, der
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Mohan Singh Vaidb. 1881INPunjabi writer and social reformer (1881–1936)
- Mohan Samantb. 1924INIndian artist
- Mohan Koiralab. 1926NPNepali poet
- Mohan Agasheb. 1947INIndian psychiatrist and actor
- Inder M Vermab. 1947INnot in their usual nameAmerican–Indian academic; PNAS editor-in-chief
- Mohan Bhagwatb. 1950INSixth Sarsanghchalak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
- Crazy Mohanb. 1952INIndian actor (1952–2019)
- Mohan Yadavb. 1965IN19th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
- Yogi Adityanathb. 1972INnot in their usual name21st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
- Mohan ApparoMYMalaysian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 67 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 20K | #618 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.7K | #4,498 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,616 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #6,962 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Mohan mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish Gaelic Ó Mocháin, ‘descendant of Mochán’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Mohan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 66 thousand people named Mohan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mohan.
- Is Mohan a male or female name?
- Mohan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Mohan?
- In the etymology graph, Mohana is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Mohan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,514 people named Mohan in 2020, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
- How common is Mohan compared with other names?
- In India, Mohan is the 75th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names 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, “Mohan” — the 75th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.