Kumâr
surname · Latin script
Kumâr 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: Transliteration of Hindi कुमार (kumār), etc.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 88(inferred from the name graph)
- NPNepal≈1 in 108
- KWKuwait≈1 in 122
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 Kumâr 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)
- #4 (measured from records)
- 14 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 498 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 88 (inferred from the name graph)
1,661,649 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kumar in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 2 more, Kumari in KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates, QA Qatar 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)
Transliteration of Hindi कुमार (kumār), etc.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kumâr 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 | 1,661,649 | 1 in 798 | 1.7M | Kumar | 421 |
| ID Indonesia | #428 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | listed | Kumar | 134 |
| BD Bangladesh | #18 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 545 | listed | Kumar | 127 |
| NP Nepal | #777 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 108 | 2 | Kumar | 107 |
| PK Pakistan | #84 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Kumar | 119 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #9 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 124 | — | Kumara | 97 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #159 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 88 | — | Kumari | 53 |
| QA Qatar | #153 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 99 | — | Kumari | 26 |
| KW Kuwait | #46 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 122 | — | Kumari | 13 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 Kumâr mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of Hindi कुमार (kumār), etc. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Kumâr have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 million people named Kumâr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kumar.
- How common is the name Kumâr?
- In India, the national register counted 1,661,649 people named Kumâr, about 1 in 798 residents.
- How common is Kumâr compared with other names?
- In India, Kumâr 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%A2rThe 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, “Kumâr” — the most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.