Nahar
loc · Latin script
Meaning: day; daytime
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nahar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 44K
- SESweden1 in 94K
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 Nahar 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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 নাহার in BD Bangladesh, IN India.
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)
day; daytime
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nahar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #144 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | নাহার | 95 |
| IN India | — | 1,901 | 1 in 698K | 1.9K | নাহার | 76 |
| US United States | — | 1,187 | 1 in 280K | 2.1K | — | 154 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 171K | 1.1K | — | 79 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 838K | listed | — | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 109 | 1 in 94K | 109 | — | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 58 | 1 in 96K | 58 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | — | 3 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1as Nahr | 1 in 54K | 1 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Nahar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, river
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, day. gly Gd 48 Jl els Jel 8 slg "You (Allah) make the night to enter into the day and you make the day to enter into the night." (surat Aal ‘Imraan 3:27)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Turkmen, meal, dish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, lunch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ednorah Naharb. 1873USelocutionist
- Sujata Naharb. 1925INHindu writer (1925-2007)
- Vijay Naharb. 1942INIndian historian and writer
- Sultana N. Naharb. 1955USBangladeshi-American physicist
- Chequita Naharb. 1970NLjewelry designer (born 1970)
- Mike Naharb. 1971NLDutch basketball player (born 1971)
- Robert Masih Naharb. 1974INPolitician
- Abdullah Naharb. 1981KWfootball player
- Albina Naharactress
- Kamrun NaharBDBangladeshi soil scientist and environmentalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 46 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nahar mean, and where does it come from?
- day; daytime Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Nahar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 128 thousand people named Nahar in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled নাহার.
- How common is the name Nahar?
- In India, the national register counted 1,901 people named Nahar, about 1 in 698 thousand residents.
- How common is Nahar compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Nahar is the 144th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naharThe 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, “Nahar” — the 144th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.