Chara
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Any of a number of jays of the Corvidae family
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/t͡ʃaɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 23K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 58K
- PLPoland1 in 103K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,953 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Ethiopia: people in the southwest; Ometo language group.
Sources 1
- African Names
How Chara is read(measured from records)
Chara is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish71%
Any of a number of jays of the Corvidae family.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi6.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chara in Hindi.
- English5.4%
A green alga of the genus Chara.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chara 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.
1,953 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Chara is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Ethiopia: people in the southwest; Ometo language group.
as a nameAfrican Names
In iba, manner, means, method
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, An unknown kind of root, perhaps wild cabbage or the root of caraway
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, face (front part of the head)
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)
- Maria Kharab. 1957UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian scientist
- Piotr Charab. 1973photographer
- Georgia Charab. 1987AUAustralian actress
- Gustavo Charab. 1996COColombian association football player
- Osvaldo CharaARArgentine biochemist
- Anteo CharaFRFrench pornographic actor
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 56 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 261 | #13,479 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 261 | #13,448 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 196 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 196 | #16,476 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 176 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 176 | #18,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 114 | #145,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 105 | #152,989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 100 | #150,436 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 31 | #36,034 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #24,205 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Chara come from?
- Ethiopia: people in the southwest; Ometo language group. Recorded by African Names.
- How do you pronounce Chara?
- A machine transcription gives /t͡ʃaɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Chara mean?
- In Spanish, Any of a number of jays of the Corvidae family.
- In which country does Chara have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Chara, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chara most common?
- Chara is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 23 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Chara?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,953 people named Chara, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chara?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/charaThe 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, “Chara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.