Kochhar

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/koʊtʃhɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kochhar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 1.3M
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 82K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,200 people, est.

Sources
169 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, 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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kochhar 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.

Where Kochhar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈1,200 est.≈1 in 82K—Kochhar1
IN India9921 in 1.3M992Kochhar130
US United States3081 in 1.1M402Kochhar169
AO Angola≈250 est.≈1 in 130K—Kochhar1
CA Canada≈200 est.≈1 in 194K—Kochhar52
AU Australia≈130 est.≈1 in 202K—Kochhar51
AE United Arab Emirates≈110 est.≈1 in 95K—Kochhar30

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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Vim Kochhar, b. 1936Rajesh Kumar Kochhar, b. 1946Chanda Kochhar, b. 1961Atul Kochhar, b. 1969Archana Kochhar, b. 1972

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)

Formalआदरणीय श्री Kochhar जी,Respected Kochhar ji, (English)
Informalनमस्ते Kochhar जी,Hi Kochhar, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kochhar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—992#5,503
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—824#843
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020402#55,187
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010308#64,559
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000137#117,538
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Kochhar?
A machine transcription gives /koʊtʃhɑɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
In which country does Kochhar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Kochhar in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kochhar.
How common is the name Kochhar?
In India, the national register counted 992 people named Kochhar, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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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, “Kochhar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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