Mahendra

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Mahendra 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. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘great Indra’, a byname of Vishnu in the Ramayana and of Shiva in Tantric texts; also the name of Emperor Asoka’s brother, the first great Buddhist missionary.

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

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mahender in GY Guyana, AU Australia, NL Netherlands and 1 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●

Sanskrit: ‘great Indra’, a byname of Vishnu in the Ramayana and of Shiva in Tantric texts; also the name of Emperor Asoka’s brother, the first great Buddhist missionary.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Mahendra 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●

  • Hindi3M71%
  • 943K22%
  • English68K2%
  • Indonesian35K1%
  • Bangla35K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi2,990,96971%
942,51622%
English68,2292%
Indonesian35,0201%
Bangla34,9391%

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◐

Mahendra is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name976K records spelled Mahendra2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Mahēndra

  • English given name81K records spelled Mahendra13 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Màhéndrà, Mãhëñdŕa, Mãhêñdrâ

  • French given name1.2K records spelled Mahendra3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Måhëñdrâ

  • Russian given name678 records spelled Mahendra7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Махендра, Makhendra

  • Croatian given name663 records spelled Mahendra7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Махендра

34 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.

Other recorded senses●

Mahendra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Indra, the great; an Indra among kings.

    as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

  • In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit. mahä »groß« + Name des Gottes

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In English, One of the holy mountains in India.

    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.

Over time●

010K20K30K19001920194019601980200021K · 1983

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Mahendra in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189923
19002
19012
19071
19091
19112
19121
19132
19143
19154
191610
191717
191829
191939
1920133
192153
1922105
1923132
1924122
1925108
1926113
1927180
1928185
1929245
1930159
1931310
1932574
1933407
1934686
1935733
1936766
19371,157
19381,053
19391,471
19401,781
19411,610
19422,724
19432,037
19443,054
19452,998
19463,265
19474,587
19483,190
19493,391
19505,127
19514,843
19527,016
19534,396
19547,203
19556,686
19566,941
19578,844
19588,561
195911,434
19609,067
19619,201
196213,356
196311,402
196413,780
196511,895
196613,771
196714,347
196813,030
196914,380
197015,211
197114,779
197216,444
197315,549
197414,899
197514,754
197616,747
197713,677
197814,444
197914,597
198014,410
198116,927
198219,688
198320,658
198420,211
198519,099
198618,377
198720,014
198819,655
198919,364
199019,160
199119,353
199220,430
199320,530
199419,101
199516,700
19969,369
19979,999
19988,253
1999194
200013
20015
20024
20031
20052
20063
200722
20081,260
200920
2010462
2011638
2012393
2013261
20141,204
2015597
20164
20176

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 111 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Mahendra Pratap, b. 1886Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, b. 1920Mahendra Kapoor, b. 1934Mahendra Singh Tikait, b. 1935Mahendra Singh Mewar, b. 1941Mahendra Chaudhry, b. 1942Mahendra Sandhu, b. 1947Mahendra Karma, b. 1950Mahendra Nath Pandey, b. 1957Mahendra Singh Dhoni, b. 1981

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●

Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Mahendra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198321K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199321K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199220K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198420K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198720K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198220K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198820K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198919K—
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—9.3K#597
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.2K#6,938
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.4K#4,316
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251.1K#43

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 287 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mahendra?
We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Mahendra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Mahendra have the most bearers?
Mahendra is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mahendra.
Where is Mahendra most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mahendra is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 675 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Mahendra compared with other names?
In India, Mahendra is the 64th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Mahendra a male or female name?
Mahendra 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 does the name Mahendra mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘great Indra’, a byname of Vishnu in the Ramayana and of Shiva in Tantric texts; also the name of Emperor Asoka’s brother, the first great Buddhist missionary.
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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, “Mahendra” — the 64th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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