Askar
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/askɛə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Askar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Somali askar, collective of askari (“policeman”), from Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar).
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 102as Oscar
- PYParaguay≈1 in 154as Oscar
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 Askar 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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- #158 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 516 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 named Oscar, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Oscar in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 4 more and Аскар in FI Finland, KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)
- Somaliaskar(measured from records)
- Arabicعَسْكَرʕaskar(measured from records)
From Somali askar, collective of askari (“policeman”), from Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar).
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Askar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #15 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 167 | 664 | Oscar | 162 |
| CO Colombia | #36 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 204 | 282 | Oscar | 223 |
| US United States | #280 | 212,946as Oscar | 1 in 1.6K | 213K | Oscar | 516 |
| ES Spain | #33 | 123,663as Oscar | 1 in 404 | 124K | Oscar | 265 |
| PE Peru | #45 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 265 | 101K | Oscar | 150 |
| SV El Salvador | #25 | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 102 | 308 | Oscar | 107 |
| PY Paraguay | #24 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 154 | — | Oscar | 91 |
| FI Finland | #850 | 38,507as Oskari | 1 in 145 | 50K | Аскар | 49 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #321 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Аскар | 26 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENIEC — DNI population names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; This page discusses the popularity of names in Sonsonate, El Salvador, and Puno, Peru in the 1980s, published by Maybe i; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Askar is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Clear, bright
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Finnish, alternative form of askare (“chore”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, indefinite nominative plural of askur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, soldier (member of an army)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Somali, soldier or police officer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite plural of ask
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)
- Al-Sayid Askarb. 1934EGEgyptian politician
- Amin Askarb. 1985NONorwegian footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 990 | #26,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 700 | #32,792 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 436 | #46,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 174 | #41,689 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 47 | #5,918 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #11,984 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28 | #39,260 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16 | #94,489 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 10 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1 | #41,689 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Askar mean, and where does it come from?
- From Somali askar, collective of askari (“policeman”), from Arabic عَسْكَر (ʕaskar). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Askar?
- A machine transcription gives /askɛə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Askar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 273 thousand people named Oscar in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Askar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 212,946 people named Oscar in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Askar compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Askar is the 15th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Askar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/askarThe 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, “Askar” — the 15th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.