Šumar

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ranger, forester

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

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

rarermore common
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 86K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 162K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

255 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŠumarLatin(measured from records)
ШумарCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sumar in IN India, US United States.

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)

ranger, forester

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šumar 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 Šumar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2551 in 830K255——
IN India2171 in 6.1M217Sumar2
US United States1141 in 2.9M128Sumar6
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈89 est.≈1 in 43K—Šumar5
HR Croatia491 in 86K49Šumar12
RS Serbia≈43 est.≈1 in 162K—Šumar7
DK Denmark141 in 419K14——
GY Guyana31 in 250K3——

255 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Šumar is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Sumar, Súmar, Sūmar

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sumar, Sūmar, Şumar, Súmar

1 further group 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)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Šumar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202149#13,496
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202147—

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Šumar mean, and where does it come from?
ranger, forester Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Šumar have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 255 people named Šumar, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Šumar?
In Brazil, the national register counted 255 people named Šumar, about 1 in 830 thousand residents.

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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, “Šumar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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