Sorcar
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Sorcar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 390as Sarkar(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 13Kas Sarkar
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 21Kas Sarkar
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 Sorcar 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #279 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 391 (inferred from the name graph)
≈440,000 named Sarkar, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est., as Sarkar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sarkar in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 4 more.
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)Sorcar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #19 | ≈440,000 est. | ≈1 in 391 | listed | Sarkar | 115 |
| IN India | #47 | 51,842as Sarkar | 1 in 26K | 52K | Sarkar | 259 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 48K | listed | Sarkar | 14 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 82K | listed | Sarkar | 16 |
| US United States | — | 2,157as Sarkar | 1 in 154K | 3.5K | Sarkar | 285 |
| MY Malaysia | #923 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Sarkar | 25 |
| SG Singapore | #489 | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sarkar | 39 |
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. 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)- Maneka SorcarINIndian magician
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #4,257 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Sorcar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 444 thousand people named Sarkar in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sorcar?
- In India, the national register counted 51,842 people named Sarkar, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Sorcar compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Sorcar is the 19th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sorcar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sorcarThe 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, “Sorcar” — the 19th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.