The Mehta surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 14,342 people carried this name — #2,526 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 20,600 people counted. That is up 48% from 9,691 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Mehta surname
Transliteration of Gujarati મહેતા (mahetā).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Mehta» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 274 people named Mehta live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
124 people named Mehta live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 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
97 people named Mehta 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
Mehta in American newspapers,
1905–1925.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,812 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Mehta in Australian newspapers,
1880s–1990s.
286 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Mehta. The most, 81, date from the 1950s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 1.8 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Mehta.
Who carried it
People named Mehta,
with a public archive behind them.
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Narsinh Mehta 1814–1881 · poet -
Manibhai Jashbhai 1844–1900 · writer -
Homi Maneck Mehta 1871–1948 · businessperson -
Malayanil 1892–1919 · writer -
Amolak Ram Mehta 1894–1986 · physician
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped — Narsinh Mehta: Snehrashmi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); Homi Maneck Mehta: Dariusmehta, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); the others are in the public domain or CC0 · 143 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Mehta,
in the records of 2 countries.
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 States45 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 42
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 2
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 1
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Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Kapurchand N. MehtaBorn 1900 in Vadal, India. Entered the United States at New York in 1947. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.
U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) -
Example: U.S. death certificate, 1910 Death record Theresa M. MehtaDied 1961 in New York State, aged 24.
New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index -
Example: marriage register, New York, 1838 Marriage record Michael MehtaMarried in 1909 in Manhattan, New York.
NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data)
Showing 3 of 45 records for Mehta 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 · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data). 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); Certificate of death, Oregon State Board of Health, 1910, Oregon State Archives (public domain); Marriage register, Methodist church in Manhattan, 1837–1838 (public domain).
France3 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Laurence MehtaBorn 1954 in Paris; died 2000 in Tours (Indre-et-Loire).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte) -
Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Shantilal Raghavji MehtaBorn 1929 in Escarpment (Kenya); died 1999 in Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Showing 2 of 3 records for Mehta in France.
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mehta.
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