Dhara
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dhara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a Vasu (M); Krsna (N); Nrsimha (N); Rama (N);.
- INIndia1 in 11K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 581K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.6Kas Dhar
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 Dhara 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 11K (inferred from the name graph)
123,851 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
15 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dara in NG Nigeria, CN China 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(measured from records)
a Vasu (M); Krsna (N); Nrsimha (N); Rama (N);
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dhara 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 | 123,851 | 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 |
| 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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dhara 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.
a son of Candra (P); Visnu (९)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
bearing; supporting.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In English, A natural spring in the Himalayas, especially one used for human consumption.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, harm, damage, loss, injury, detriment
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, holding, bearing, carrying
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 124K | #163 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #885 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #220,352 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #322,473 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Dhara have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 124 thousand people named Dhara, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dhara.
- Where is Dhara most common?
- Dhara is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- What does the name Dhara mean?
- Recorded meaning: a Vasu (M); Krsna (N); Nrsimha (N); Rama (N);
- How common is the name Dhara?
- In India, the national register counted 123,851 people named Dhara, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Dhara compared with other names?
- In India, Dhara is the 471st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dharaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dhara” — the 471st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.