Aşkar

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Aşkar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Somali askar, collective of askari (“policeman”), from Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 475K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 39K
  • NONorway1 in 40K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

700 people, 2010

Sources
169 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Askar in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

Derivation of Aşkar: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Aşkar
  1. Somaliaskar(measured from records)
  2. Arabicعَسْكَرʕaskar(measured from records)

From Somali askar, collective of askari (“policeman”), from Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar).

Sources 1

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Aşkar 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.

Where Aşkar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7001 in 475K990Askar169
SE Sweden2611 in 39K261—5
NO Norway1381 in 40K138—2
NL Netherlands581 in 298K58Askar10
DK Denmark481 in 122K48——
FI Finland281 in 199K47——

700 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Aşkar is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Askar, Äsķär, Ăskăr

  • Turkish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States, Iraq

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Askar, Äskär, Ăskăr

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Türkiye, Canada

    Also written Askar, Aşķâř

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Askar

20 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Aşkar 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 Azerbaijani, clear, evident, apparent, manifest; revealed

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Aşkar mean, and where does it come from?
From Somali askar, collective of askari (“policeman”), from Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar). Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Aşkar have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 700 people named Aşkar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled askar.
Where is Aşkar most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aşkar is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 39 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Aşkar?
In the United States, the national register counted 700 people named Aşkar in 2010, about 1 in 475 thousand 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, “Aşkar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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