Kår
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kår is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- 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 Kår 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kår 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kår is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a corps, a corporation, a company, a union, a force
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, circumstances, conditions
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, imperative of kåre
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Kår a male or female name?
- Kår is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kår have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kår, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kår most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kår 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 Kår?
- In India, the national register counted 13,147 people named Kår, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kår?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A5rThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kår”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.