Kumare

surname · Latin script

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

Kumare is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.

rarermore common
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 88as Kumar(inferred from the name graph)
  • NPNepal≈1 in 108as Kumar
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 122as Kumar

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 Kumare 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)

1,661,649 named Kumar

#4 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

14 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
498 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 88 (inferred from the name graph)

United Arab Emirates, est., as Kumar

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KumarLatin(measured from records)
কুমারBengali(measured from records)
କୁମାରOdia(measured from records)
กุมารThai(measured from records)
КумарCyrillic(measured from records)
කුමාරSinhala(measured from records)
കുമാർMalayalam(measured from records)
קומאריHebrew(measured from records)
კუმარGeorgian(measured from records)
குமாரTamil(measured from records)
కుమారTelugu(measured from records)
쿠마리Hangul(measured from records)
ಕುಮಾರKannada(measured from records)
ΚουμαριGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kumar in IN India, PK Pakistan, BD Bangladesh and 2 more, Kumari in KW Kuwait, AE United Arab Emirates, QA Qatar and Kumara in LK Sri Lanka.

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

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)

Kumare 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 Kumare is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#11,661,649as Kumar1 in 7981.7MKumar421
ID Indonesia#428≈320,000 est.≈1 in 825listedKumar134
BD Bangladesh#18≈300,000 est.≈1 in 545listedKumar127
NP Nepal#777≈280,000 est.≈1 in 1082Kumar107
PK Pakistan#84≈200,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Kumar119
LK Sri Lanka#9≈180,000 est.≈1 in 124—Kumara97
AE United Arab Emirates#159≈110,000 est.≈1 in 88—Kumari53
QA Qatar#153≈25,000 est.≈1 in 99—Kumari26
KW Kuwait#46≈25,000 est.≈1 in 122—Kumari13

1,661,649 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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kumare is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kumaré

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Kumaré

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kumare 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 Filipino, alternative form of komadre

    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 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Kumare
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—24K#84
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—15K#746

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kumare have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 1.7 million people named Kumar, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Kumare?
In India, the national register counted 1,661,649 people named Kumar, about 1 in 798 residents.
How common is Kumare compared with other names?
In India, Kumare is the most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kumare” — the most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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