Ghimire
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ghimire is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- NPNepal≈1 in 234(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 358K
- QAQatar≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 234 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghimire 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 234 | 6 | Ghimire | 113 |
| US United States | — | 928 | 1 in 358K | 2.7K | Ghimire | 171 |
| QA Qatar | #261 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Ghimire | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #645 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Ghimire | 31 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Ghimire | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 269 | 1 in 21K | 269 | Ghimire | 6 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ghimire | 4 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Madhav Prasad Ghimireb. 1919NPNepalese poet
- Ujwal Ghimireb. 1960NPFilm director of Nepal
- Kedar Ghimireb. 1975NPNepalese comedian and actor
- Jhamak Ghimireb. 1980NPNepalese writer
- Bhawana Ghimireb. 2000GBformer Nepalese Cricket Association executive
- Sampada Ghimireb. 2001NPNepali beauty pageant titleholder
- Richa GhimireNPNepali actor
- Rajan GhimireUSresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-6962-6066
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,332 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 928 | #26,313 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 269 | #5,878 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 51 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 6 | #11 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Ghimire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 129 thousand people named Ghimire in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ghimire.
- How common is the name Ghimire?
- In the United States, the national register counted 928 people named Ghimire in 2010, about 1 in 358 thousand residents.
- How common is Ghimire compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Ghimire is the 261st most common surname of 15,902 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
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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, “Ghimire” — the 261st most common surname in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.