Sönar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sönar is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- NPNepal1 in 325(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 71K
- PLPoland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 325 (inferred from the name graph)
93,380 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sonar in IN India, TR Türkiye.
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)[물리], 음파 탐지기, sound navigation and ranging
Cited for this meaning 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sönar is found
(measured from records)Sönar 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.
93,380 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sönar a male or female name?
- Sönar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sönar?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 93 thousand people named Sönar, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Poland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sönar most common?
- Sönar is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 325 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sönar?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 93,380 people named Sönar in 2021, about 1 in 325 residents.
What do you want to know about Sönar?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B6narThe 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, “Sönar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.