Achar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Achar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Aleppo, Ciudad de Mexico, Buenos Aires.
- INIndia1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.1M
- UYUruguay1 in 49K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- 1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
997 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Aleppo, Ciudad de Mexico, Buenos Aires
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Achar 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 | — | 997 | 1 in 1.3M | 997 | Achar | 100 |
| AR Argentina | — | 604 | 1 in 75K | 604 | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 210K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | — | 160 | 1 in 2.1M | 240 | Achar | 110 |
| BR Brazil | — | 124 | 1 in 1.7M | 124 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | #582 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Achar | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 69 | 1 in 49K | 69 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 436K | — | Achar | 3 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
997 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the dz-kaggle-names 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Achar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, to find, think, suppose
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In mzs, achar (preserve or pickle, made of spring onions, cabbage, coconut, apple, pear, etc. in vinegar and salt, (formerly) eaten as an appetizer or a street food using toothpicks)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, to find; to encounter (to come across something that was unknown or had been lost)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A spicy and salty pickle in Indian cuisine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, alternative form of aicher
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)
- Chandan Acharb. 1993INIndian Kannada film actor
- Raghu Ram Acharb. 2000INresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 997 | #5,485 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 604 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 240 | #84,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 160 | #110,286 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 124 | #53,746 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 107 | #3,534 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 69 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Achar mean, and where does it come from?
- Aleppo, Ciudad de Mexico, Buenos Aires Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Achar have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 997 people named Achar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled achar.
- Where is Achar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Achar is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 49 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Achar?
- In India, the national register counted 997 people named Achar, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Achar compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Achar is the 582nd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Achar” — the 582nd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.