Mahender

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mahender is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 64th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 919◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 19K
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 21K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.5K ●

across 4 countries

#740 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
254 ●

1.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 675 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

MahendraLatin · Hindi●3M records
মহেন্দ্রBengali · Bangla●1K records
มาเฮนดราThai · Thai●24 records
מהנדרהHebrew · Hebrew●1 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mahendra in IN India, US United States, ID Indonesia and 21 more and Mahendar in PK Pakistan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mahender is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#643,541,2991.1M rec.—1.4KMahendra254
ID Indonesia—4,8434.7K rec.—listedMahendra170
GB United Kingdom—2,2971K rec.—listedMahendra75
US United States—2,22516K rec.1 in 150K2.2KMahendra236
MY Malaysia—1,287778 rec.——Mahendra28
GY Guyana—1,111△17 rec.1 in 6751.1KMahender3
SA Saudi Arabia—1,073173 rec.——Mahendra15
AE United Arab Emirates#530764694 rec.——Mahendra46
CA Canada—494524 rec.—1Mahendra58
QA Qatar#344426440 rec.——Mahendra13
NP Nepal—295818 rec.—4Mahendra54
ZA South Africa—266258 rec.——Mahendra26

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi129K41%
  • 129K41%
  • English19K6%
  • Telugu14K4%
  • Assamese14K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi128,56241%
128,51541%
English18,7006%
Telugu13,8694%
Assamese13,8684%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mahender is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name823 records spelled Mahender3 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mãhéñdèr

35 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.

Over time●

010020030019201940196019802000249 · 1981

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Mahender in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19182
19202
19222
19231
19242
19256
19263
19276
19283
192910
19301
19314
193212
19339
19348
19358
19367
193720
193818
193914
194028
194118
194238
194329
194441
194546
194642
194765
194843
194957
195084
195181
1952121
195373
1954123
1955128
1956115
1957173
1958134
1959209
1960174
1961189
1962247
1963206
1964236
1965223
1966201
1967233
1968225
1969223
1970232
1971199
1972238
1973204
1974216
1975210
1976184
1977140
1978120
1979169
1980177
1981249
1982210
1983214
198465
198551
198644
198749
198853
198954
199048
199169
199262
199389
199497
199567
199637
199729
199823
19991
200813
20103
20116
20124
20133
20147
20152

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Mahender
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—14K#420
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1981249—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1962247—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1972238—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1964236—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1967233—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1970232—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1968225—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1969223—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1965223—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1974216—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983214—

Reference works 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 165 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mahender?
We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Mahender (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Mahender have the most bearers?
Mahender is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mahendra.
Where is Mahender most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mahender is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 675 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Mahender compared with other names?
In India, Mahender is the 64th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Mahender a male or female name?
Mahender 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.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Mahender” — the 64th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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