Kár
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kár is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: damage; a pity.
- USUnited States1 in 342K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 53K
- NONorway1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kár itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
13,147 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kaer in US United States, NG Nigeria, EE Estonia.
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)
damage; a pity
Sources 2
- Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kár 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 | 13,147 | 1 in 101K | 13K | — | 117 |
| US United States | 974 | 1 in 342K | 1.4K | KaeR | 239 |
| NO Norway | 94 | 1 in 58K | 94 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 93 | 1 in 186K | 93 | — | 35 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | KaeR | 15 |
| EE Estonia | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 11 | KaeR | 5 |
| FI Finland | 42 | 1 in 133K | 42 | — | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | 40 | 1 in 53K | 40 | — | 1 |
13,147 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kar. Rachel Roostveldtb. 1914Holocaust victim (born 1914)
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 4 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Kár mean?
- Recorded meaning: damage; a pity
- In which country does Kár have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kár, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kár most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kár is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kár?
- In India, the national register counted 13,147 people named Kár, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A1rThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kár”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.