Mehta

Mehta is the 1,861st most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,945 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,800.

By the numbers

People: 18,945
Rank: 1,861st
How common: 1 in 15,800
Per 100,000: 6.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Gujarati

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mehta described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 91.3%
White, not Hispanic 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Mehta

Zubin Mehta (born 1936)Indian conductor
Deepa Mehta (born 1950)Indo Canadian film director and screenwriter
Gita Mehta (1942–2023)Indian novelist and film director
Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897–1995)reformist, social activist, freedom-fighter and educator and writer of India
Vijaya Mehta (1934–2026)Indian actress
Shekhar Mehta (1945–2006)Ugandan-Kenyan rally driver
Ketan Mehta (born 1952)Indian film director
Apara Mehta (born 1960)Indian actress

People named Mehta with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mehta

Meh
Mehl

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.