Nağar
surname · Latin script
Nağar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Hindi नगर (nagar), which is from Sanskrit नगर (nagara, “city”). * Borrowed from Hebrew נַגָּר (nagár, “carpenter”), an occupational surname.
- INIndia1 in 58K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 253K
- NONorway1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
23,027 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Hindiनगरnagar(measured from records)
- Sanskritनगरnagara“city”(measured from records)
- Hebrewנַגָּרnagár“carpenter”(measured from records)
Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Hindi नगर (nagar), which is from Sanskrit नगर (nagara, “city”). * Borrowed from Hebrew נַגָּר (nagár, “carpenter”), an occupational surname.
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nağar 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.
23,027 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Nağar mean, and where does it come from?
- Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Hindi नगर (nagar), which is from Sanskrit नगर (nagara, “city”). * Borrowed from Hebrew נַגָּר (nagár, “carpenter”), an occupational surname. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Nağar have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Nağar, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nağar most common?
- Nağar is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nağar?
- In India, the national register counted 23,027 people named Nağar, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
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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, “Nağar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.