Kãr
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kãr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: used in the onomatopoeic phrase kar kor; the resemblance to Ar. is probably coincidental.
- USUnited States1 in 342K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 53K
- NONorway1 in 58K
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 Kãr 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)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
13,147 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kaer in US United States, NG Nigeria, EE Estonia.
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)
used in the onomatopoeic phrase kar kor; the resemblance to Ar. is probably coincidental
Sources 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kãr 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 | 13,147 | 1 in 101K | 13K | — | 117 |
| US United States | 974 | 1 in 342K | 1.4K | KaeR | 239 |
| NO Norway | 94 | 1 in 58K | 94 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 93 | 1 in 186K | 93 | — | 35 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | — | KaeR | 15 |
| EE Estonia | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 11 | KaeR | 5 |
| FI Finland | 42 | 1 in 133K | 42 | — | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | 40 | 1 in 53K | 40 | — | 1 |
13,147 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kãr mean, and where does it come from?
- used in the onomatopoeic phrase kar kor; the resemblance to Ar. is probably coincidental Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- Is Kãr a male or female name?
- Kãr is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kãr have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Kãr, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kãr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kãr is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kãr?
- In India, the national register counted 13,147 people named Kãr, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A3rThe 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, “Kãr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.