Lohar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lohar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
- NPNepal1 in 301
- KWKuwait≈1 in 9.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- 1 in 301 (inferred from the name graph)
171,834 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lohar 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.
171,834 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; NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only. 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)
- Alam Loharb. 1928PKPakistani singer (1928-1979)
- Kayadu Loharb. 2000INIndian film actress and model
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 172K | #124 |
| NP Nepal | NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only | 2021 | 101K | #32 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 633 | #48 |
Reference works 1
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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
- In which country does Lohar have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 172 thousand people named Lohar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lohar.
- Where is Lohar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lohar is densest in Nepal — about 1 in 301 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lohar?
- In India, the national register counted 171,834 people named Lohar, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Lohar compared with other names?
- In India, Lohar is the 375th 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/loharThe 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, “Lohar” — the 375th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.