Dhar
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dhɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dhar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 324K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 11Kas Dhara
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.6K
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 Dhar 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)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
123,851 named Dhara
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
14 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dara in US United States, NG Nigeria, CN China, Dhara in IN India and ধর in BD Bangladesh.
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.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dhar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #471 | 123,851as Dhara | 1 in 11K | 124K | Dhara | 208 |
| BD Bangladesh | #651 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | ধর | 67 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Dara | 49 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,346as Dala | 1 in 63K | 12K | — | 4 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Dara | 19 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,750as Data | 1 in 22K | 933 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 1,026 | 1 in 324K | 12K | Dara | 426 |
| AR Argentina | — | 986as Fara | 1 in 46K | 986 | — | 1 |
123,851 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Meenakshi Dharb. 1969INsinger and social worker from Odisha, India (1969-2021)
- Sandhya Dharb. 1980INIndian disability rights activist
- Aditya Dharb. 1983INIndian director
- KSHMRb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican DJ, record producer and songwriter
- Angira Dharb. 1988INIndian actress
- Leema Dharb. 1993INIndian author
- Dipsita Dharb. 1993INIndian student activist
- Anuj DharINIndian activist, journalist
- Vasant DharUSIndian academic
- Shanta Dharresearcher
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 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14K | #302 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 4.4K | #1,710 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.8K | #2,146 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,404 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 526 | #39,378 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1993 | 13 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1988 | 12 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1987 | 11 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1974 | 11 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1949 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Dhar?
- A machine transcription gives /dhɑɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Dhar have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 124 thousand people named Dhara, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dhar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,026 people named Dhar in 2010, about 1 in 324 thousand residents.
- How common is Dhar compared with other names?
- In India, Dhar is the 471st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dhar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dharThe 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, “Dhar” — the 471st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.