The Bhatt surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 5,349 people carried this name — #6,363 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 55,200 people counted. That is up 48% from 3,609 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Bhatt surname
A surname from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.
Transliteration of Hindi भट्ट (bhaṭṭ).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bhatt» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
39 people named Bhatt live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
64 people named Bhatt is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Bhatt in American newspapers,
1912–1916.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,871 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Bhatt in Australian newspapers,
1890s–1970s.
20 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Bhatt. The most, 4, date from the 1970s.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Bhatt.
Who carried it
People named Bhatt,
with a public archive behind them.
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Annambhatta 1625–1700 · writer
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Nrusingprasad Kalidas Bhatt 1882–1961 · politician
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Nrusingprasad Kalidas Bhatt 1882–1961 · politician
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Nrusingprasad Kalidas Bhatt 1882–1961 · politician
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Nanabhai Bhatt 1915–1999 · film director
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Nanabhai Bhatt 1915–1999 · film director
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Bhatt,
in the records of the United States.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States15 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 14
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
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Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Madhavial M. BhattBorn 1886 in Bhuj, India. Entered the United States at New York in 1947. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.
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Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Bachubhai V. BhattBorn 1923 in Umreth, India. Entered the United States at Boston in 1948. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.
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Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Paul S. BhattBorn 1914 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in El Paso, Texas, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.
U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
Showing 3 of 15 records for Bhatt in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bhatt.
When the index is not enough
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