Wâr

surname · Latin script

Wâr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 557K
  • INIndia1 in 1.4M

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 Wâr 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)

978 people

Record sources
151 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 557K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Waer in US United States, PY Paraguay, CU Cuba and 2 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • The book of African names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Wâr 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 Wâr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India9781 in 1.4M978—51
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈390 est.≈1 in 263K—Waer1
US United States2841 in 1.2M385Waer151
MM Myanmar (Burma)≈220 est.≈1 in 264Klisted——
TN Tunisia≈170 est.≈1 in 70K—Waer3
CU Cuba≈77 est.≈1 in 143K—Waer1
NL Netherlands311 in 557K31—6
PY Paraguay≈16 est.≈1 in 459K—Waer3

978 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Wâr is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Wàr, Wãr, War, Wãř, Wár

  • Hindi name24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Spanish

    Also written War, Wãr, Wär, Wàr, Wár

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written War, Wař

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Wâr 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

In which country does Wâr have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 978 people named Wâr, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Wâr most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wâr is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 557 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wâr?
In India, the national register counted 978 people named Wâr, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

What do you want to know about Wâr?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/w%C3%A2r

The 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, “Wâr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

See how Wâr parses inside a full name →