Thakùr

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Thakùr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi ठाकुर (ṭhākur), a historical feudal title of the Indian subcontinent.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 1.6K(measured from records)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 15K
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

836,924 people

#331 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
303 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ThakùrLatin(measured from records)
ঠাকুরBengali(measured from records)
ଠାକୁରOdia(measured from records)
ตาครThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Thakur in IN India, MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan and 3 more.

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)

Borrowed from Hindi ठाकुर (ṭhākur), a historical feudal title of the Indian subcontinent.

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Thakùr 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.

Where Thakùr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#57836,9241 in 1.6K837KThakur303
ID Indonesia—≈8,800 est.≈1 in 30K—Thakur24
BD Bangladesh#487≈7,100 est.≈1 in 23K—Thakur38
PK Pakistan—≈6,900 est.≈1 in 34K1Thakur36
MY Malaysia—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 15K—Thakur26
SG Singapore—≈230 est.≈1 in 27K—Thakur41

836,924 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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Thakùr is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Thakur, Ťhäkùr, Thåkúr, Thāķűŗ, Thäkùr

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Thakùr under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Thakùr mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Hindi ठाकुर (ṭhākur), a historical feudal title of the Indian subcontinent. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Thakùr have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 837 thousand people named Thakùr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thakur.
Where is Thakùr most common?
Thakùr is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Thakùr?
In India, the national register counted 836,924 people named Thakùr, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
How common is Thakùr compared with other names?
In India, Thakùr is the 57th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Thakùr” — the 57th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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