Rathore
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹæthɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rathore is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi राठौर (rāṭhaur).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 63K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 12K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hindi राठौर (rāṭhaur).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rathore 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | 1 | Rathore | 59 |
| IN India | #382 | 20,933 | 1 in 63K | 21K | Rathore | 248 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Rathore | 12 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Rathore | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #646 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Rathore | 39 |
| KW Kuwait | #587 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Rathore | 9 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Rathore | 5 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Rathore | 10 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
- Jaimal Rathoreb. 1507INIndian king
- Jaswant Singhb. 1938INnot in their usual nameIndian politician and retired army officer (1938–2020)
- Bunty Rathoreb. 1973INIndian writer
- Anurag S Rathoreb. 1973INresearcher
- Mahendra Singh Rathoreresearcher
- Ravindranath RathoreINresearcher
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
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
- What does the name Rathore mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hindi राठौर (rāṭhaur). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Rathore?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹæthɔɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Rathore have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Rathore in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rathore.
- How common is the name Rathore?
- In India, the national register counted 20,933 people named Rathore, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Rathore compared with other names?
- In India, Rathore is the 382nd 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/rathoreThe 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, “Rathore” — the 382nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.