Kumàra
surname · Latin script
Kumàra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: name of many men (P); Krsna (४); Skanda. Kumàra is also written কুমার in Bengali, କୁମାର in Odia and กุมาร in Thai.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 130(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 120as Kumar
- QAQatar≈1 in 170few recordsas Kumar
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 Kumàra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- #4 (measured from records)
- 14 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 498 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130 (inferred from the name graph)
1,661,649 named Kumar
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kumàra in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Odia and 11 more
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kumar in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 1 more, Kumari in KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia, AE United Arab Emirates and 1 more and Kumara in LK Sri Lanka.
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)name of many men (P); Krsna (४); Skanda
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kumàra is found
(measured from records)Kumàra 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 | 1,661,649as Kumar | 1 in 798 | 1.7M | Kumar | 421 |
| BD Bangladesh | #18 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 836 | listed | Kumar | 127 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #9 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 130 | — | Kumara | 97 |
| ID Indonesia | #428 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | listed | Kumar | 134 |
| PK Pakistan | #84 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Kumar | 119 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #159 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 121 | — | Kumari | 53 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #213 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 610 | — | Kumari | 16 |
| KW Kuwait | #46 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | — | Kumari | 13 |
| QA Qatar | #153 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 165 | — | Kumari | 26 |
1,661,649 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. 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 Kumàra mean, and where does it come from?
- name of many men (P); Krsna (४); Skanda Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kumàra?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 million people named Kumar, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kumàra?
- In India, the national register counted 1,661,649 people named Kumar, about 1 in 798 residents.
- How common is Kumàra compared with other names?
- In India, Kumàra is the most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kum%C3%A0raThe 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, “Kumàra” — ranked 13th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.