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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Mahant

Great one; head of a monastery

Mahant means “Great one; head of a monastery”.

Origin language
Sanskrit / Hindi / Gujarati
First letter
M
Historical records
10,386

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Mahant mean?

Mahant continues Sanskrit mahant, great. In Hindi and Gujarati the word became a title for the head of a monastery or religious establishment.

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

महन्त

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Mahant in Indian usage

10,386 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

Mostly recorded for boys (80.4%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 2,040 records (19.6%).
  • Recorded as male: 8,346 records (80.4%).

By birth decade

Mahant: records by birth decade1930s: 4841930s1940s: 1,2001940s1950s: 1,9261950s1960s: 2,2621960s1970s: 2,1161970s1980s: 1,4531980s1990s: 7881990sOther decades: 157Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1930s484
1940s1,200
1950s1,926
1960s2,262
1970s2,116
1980s1,453
1990s788
Other decades157

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar4,493
Gujarat2,311
Maharashtra2,004
Uttar Pradesh872
Himachal Pradesh202
Madhya Pradesh198
Haryana171
Other states135
How to read these numbers

Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.

Explore related lists

Boy namesSanskrit originHindi originGujarati originGujarati script

Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, mahat, p. 794,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Monier-Williams, mahanta, p. 794,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.