Negara
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: country; nation; sovereign state
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəɡara/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Negara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 199K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 382K
- ESSpain1 in 893K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
56 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
country; nation; sovereign state
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Negara is read(measured from records)
Negara is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian85%
country; nation; sovereign state
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
country, state, nation, polity
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.1%
A constituent state of Indonesia when it was under Dutch control.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Negara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 56 | 1 in 893K | 56 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 37 | 1 in 1M | 26 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 28 | 1 in 199K | 28 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 5 | 1 in 2M | 5 | — | — |
56 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Negara is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of negar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of negar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bew, country
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)
- Dewangga Surya Negarab. 2000IDbadminton player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 56 | #41,547 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 56 | #40,981 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 28 | #39,396 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,688 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #128,480 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5 | #53,656 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Negara mean, and where does it come from?
- country; nation; sovereign state Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Negara?
- A machine transcription gives /nəɡara/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- In which country does Negara have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 56 people named Negara, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Negara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Negara is densest in Finland — about 1 in 199 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Negara?
- In Spain, the national register counted 56 people named Negara, about 1 in 893 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/negaraThe 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, “Negara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.