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- Mahajan is the 16130th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Mahajan surname appeared 1,794 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Mahajan.
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The surname Mahajan is most common in India, where it is held by 289,132 people, or 1 in 2,653. In India it is most frequent in: Maharashtra, where 65 percent reside, Punjab, where 10 percent reside and Gujarat, where 4 percent reside. Excluding India this last name is found in 78 countries.
Number of People with the name Mahajan: 1,794; Overall Popularity: Less than 0.01% (a rare surname) Ranking: 16130; Frequency per 100k people: 0.61; Below is the ethnic distribution of the surname Mahajan based on recent US Census records.
We spell this surname as Mahajan (महाजन). They are from Arora-Khatri Community. According to great texts, Mahajan (Khatris) are Suryavanshi and also Descendants of Lord Rama. Mahajans are Kshatriya. Most of Mahajans are Dual-faith Hindus (who believe in both Hindu and Sikh religions).
A significant majority of those with the Mahajan surname have an Asian or Pacific Islander background. This group made up 89.75% of the population with this surname in 2000, and that figure rose to 94.26% in 2010, showing a change of roughly 5%.
Mahajan Name Meaning. Indian (northern states): Bania name, from Hindi məhājən ‘merchant, banker, moneylender’, from Sanskrit mahā ‘great’ + janas ‘person’.
The last name is the 990,978 th most prevalent surname internationally. It is borne by approximately 1 in 28,137,243 people. It occurs predominantly in Asia, where 82 percent of Mhajan reside; 82 percent reside in South Asia and 78 percent reside in Indo-South Asia.
