Kaşar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: kasseri cheese (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Kaşar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 1,086 people, counted by Instate.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 160K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 600K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
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
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
1,086 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kasar in TR Türkiye, IN India, 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)kasseri cheese
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kaşar is found
(measured from records)Kaşar 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 | 1,086 | 1 in 1.2M | 1.1K | Kasar | 22 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Kasar | 37 |
| NL Netherlands | 17 | 1 in 1M | 17 | Kasar | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 17 | 1 in 600K | 17 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
1,086 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kaşar mean, and where does it come from?
- kasseri cheese Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kaşar?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kaşar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kasar. After it come Türkiye, Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kaşar?
- In India, the national register counted 1,086 people named Kaşar, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kaşar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ka%C5%9FarThe 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, “Kaşar” — ranked 5138th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.