Kalari
loc · Latin script
Meaning: a pitcher; a churn; the pinnacle of a temple
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kalari is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 466Kas Kilari(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 159K
- ESSpain1 in 122Kas Clari
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kalari 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
2,847 named Kilari
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
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)
a pitcher; a churn; the pinnacle of a temple.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kalari 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 | 2,847as Kilari | 1 in 466K | 2.8K | Kalari | 49 |
| ES Spain | 409as Clari | 1 in 122K | 409 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 206as Kilaru | 1 in 1.6M | 342 | — | 40 |
| AR Argentina | 141as Clari | 1 in 323K | 141 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 35 | 1 in 159K | 35 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 7as Kilaru | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 1 |
2,847 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling kilari. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
Kalari is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lmy, rope
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 466 | #9,690 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 450 | #7,705 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #30,704 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kalari mean, and where does it come from?
- a pitcher; a churn; the pinnacle of a temple. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- In which country does Kalari have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Kilari, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kalari most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kalari is densest in Finland — about 1 in 159 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kalari?
- In Finland, the national register counted 35 people named Kalari, about 1 in 159 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalariThe 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, “Kalari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.