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Mohan

#5,143 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly to err, to be foolish, to deviate, through मोहन

Mohan has been given to 332 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #5,143 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Mohan, 2025

1 in 174,000

Mohan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mohan: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to err, to be foolish, to deviate, through मोहन

Sanskrit

What Mohan means

Mohan belongs to the name family reached through Mohan → मोहन → मोहन. Its meaning is “to err, to be foolish, to deviate”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mohan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Mohan comes through Hindi मोहन.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include म and मोहन.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 332 boys were recorded with the name Mohan between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,566 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,510 in 2020 to #5,143 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,639 in 2015 to #5,143 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mohan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,143
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mohan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mohan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mohans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mohan was born before 2011 — so the typical Mohan is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
332
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (99).

Is Mohan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,554
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,367
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,496
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (19)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,566
1971

Spellings of Mohan

Mohan is not the most common spelling — John is, with 78.9% against Mohan's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mohan is used

Across 1910–2025, Mohan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,060,570 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mohan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mohan around the world

Where Mohan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2016
    #3,478
    in 2016
  • France
    1992–2025
    #2,772
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2008
    #2,611
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1975–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mohan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,143
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,367
Best rank ever
#3,566
1971
Peak year
2025
19 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
332
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Mohan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MohidMohsenMohabMohsinRihanCohanRuhanIthanArhanMohitOrhanVihanMohamudAshanKohanAahanGohanZohanGuhanIlhanJehanAhanShahanAodhan

Sibling names for Mohan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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