Mitra

Mitra is the 11,567th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,600 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 115,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,600
Rank: 11,567th
How common: 1 in 115,000
Per 100,000: 0.87

Where the name comes from

Origin Sanskrit

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 83.6%
White, not Hispanic 7.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Surnames like Mitra

Also a first name

Mitra has been given to 595 American babies as a first name since 1961, peaking in 1988. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.