Šaras
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. (žr.) ir lenk. Szarowski (SSNO V 276), rus
Šaras is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 164K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 262K
- NLNetherlands1 in 332K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 164K (inferred from the name graph)
300 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Saras in IN India, US United States and Şaras in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Plg. (žr.) ir lenk. Szarowski (SSNO V 276), rus. Шаровский (CAMC IV 723)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šaras counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 300 | 1 in 4.4M | 300 | Saras | 5 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 537K | — | Şaras | 9 |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 203 | Saras | 9 |
| ES Spain | 81 | 1 in 617K | 81 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 56 | 1 in 3.8M | 56 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 52 | 1 in 332K | 52 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 39 | 1 in 262K | 39 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 34 | 1 in 164K | 34 | — | — |
300 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Šaras is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Zirglietas, iejūgs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Šaras come from?
- Plg. (žr.) ir lenk. Szarowski (SSNO V 276), rus. Шаровский (CAMC IV 723) Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- What does the name Šaras mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plg. (žr.) ir lenk. Szarowski (SSNO V 276), rus.
- In which country does Šaras have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 300 people named Šaras, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saras.
- Where is Šaras most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šaras is densest in Finland — about 1 in 164 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šaras?
- In India, the national register counted 300 people named Šaras, about 1 in 4.4 million residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šaras”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.