Kapoor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Sanskrit personal name meaning literally ‘camphor’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kapoor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 34K
- USUnited States1 in 88K
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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
39,374 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from a Sanskrit personal name meaning literally ‘camphor’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kapoor 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 | #452 | 39,374 | 1 in 34K | 39K | Kapoor | 275 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Kapoor | 50 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Kapoor | 32 |
| US United States | — | 3,794 | 1 in 88K | 5.2K | Kapoor | 366 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Kapoor | 11 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Kapoor | 24 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #330 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Kapoor | 82 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kapoor | 59 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kapoor | 14 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kapoor | 17 |
39,374 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Kapoor 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 English, A kshatriya Punjabi surname from Hindi.
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)
- Shashi Kapoorb. 1938INIndian film actor and producer (1938–2017)
- Randhir Kapoorb. 1947INIndian actor
- Rishi Kapoorb. 1952INIndian film actor (1951–2020)
- Anish Kapoorb. 1954GBBritish-Indian artist (born 1954)
- Anil Kapoorb. 1956INIndian actor
- Karisma Kapoorb. 1974INIndian actress (born 1974)
- Kareena Kapoorb. 1980INIndian actress
- Ranbir Kapoorb. 1982INIndian actor (born 1982)
- Sonam Kapoorb. 1985INIndian actress
- Shraddha Kapoorb. 1987INIndian film actress and singer
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kapoor mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Sanskrit personal name meaning literally ‘camphor’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Kapoor have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 39 thousand people named Kapoor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kapoor.
- How common is the name Kapoor?
- In India, the national register counted 39,374 people named Kapoor, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Kapoor compared with other names?
- In India, Kapoor is the 452nd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kapoorThe 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, “Kapoor” — the 452nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.