Kumāra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The god Skanda, who rode on a peacock and gave a boon to Mānavamma (Cv
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kumāra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 124(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 88as Kumar
- NPNepal≈1 in 108as 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 Kumāra 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 124 (inferred from the name graph)
1,661,649 named Kumar
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, 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 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)
The god Skanda, who rode on a peacock and gave a boon to Mānavamma (Cv. lvii.7,10).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kumāra 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 |
| 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kumāra is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, Father of Bharaṇa; lived in Kappakandara (Mhv. xxiii.64).
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
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
- Where does the name Kumāra come from?
- The god Skanda, who rode on a peacock and gave a boon to Mānavamma (Cv. lvii.7,10). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh).
- What does the name Kumāra mean?
- Recorded meaning: The god Skanda, who rode on a peacock and gave a boon to Mānavamma (Cv.
- Is Kumāra a male or female name?
- Kumāra is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kumāra have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.7 million people named Kumar, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kumāra?
- In India, the national register counted 1,661,649 people named Kumar, about 1 in 798 residents.
- How common is Kumāra compared with other names?
- In India, Kumāra 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%C4%81raThe 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, “Kumāra” — the most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.