Kumaar

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kumaar is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Punjabi, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • LKSri Lanka1 in 98
  • SGSingapore1 in 421
  • MYMalaysia1 in 638

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.7M

across 13 countries

#7

of 21M surnames

16

recorded for this name

Sources
456

43M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 798

India

Spellings & scripts

KumarLatin · Hindi78M records
কুমারBengali · Bangla53K records
กุมารThai · Thai2.3K records
КумарCyrillic · Kazakh455 records
කුමාරSinhala · Sinhala45 records
കുമാർMalayalam · Malayalam36 records
કુમારGujarati · Gujarati12 records
ᲙუმარGeorgian · Georgian10 records
ਕੁਮਾਰGurmukhi · Punjabi7 records
קומאריHebrew · Hebrew5 records
କୁମାରOdia · Odia1 records
쿠마리Hangul · Korean1 records
కుమరTelugu · Telugu0 records
ಕುಮಾರKannada · Kannada0 records
குமாரTamil · Tamil0 records
ΚουμαριGreek · Greek0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kumar in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 21 more, Kumari in ES Spain, BR Brazil, PL Poland and 2 more and Kumara in LK Sri Lanka.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Kumaar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#11,661,64942M rec.1 in 7981.7MKumar387
GB United Kingdom#18890,63643K rec.listedKumar214
MY Malaysia#3086,26669K rec.634Kumar136
PK Pakistan#8661,8064.6K rec.Kumar106
AU Australia#15942,28368K rec.1Kumar233
US United States#62925,986496K rec.1 in 13K37KKumar456
BD Bangladesh#32424,11014K rec.listedKumar118
SG Singapore#1122,91728K rec.Kumar148
CA Canada#31217,37320K rec.2Kumar189
ID Indonesia#39515,90219K rec.listedKumar122
LK Sri Lanka#1114,41443K rec.Kumara88
TH Thailand#7519,7976.8K rec.#39,437Kumar124

Roughly 1.7M people in India bear this name (about 1 in 798). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Hindi6M85%
  • Punjabi1M14%
  • Marathi92K1%
  • 7K1%
  • Assamese1.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi6,043,51185%
Punjabi1,000,00014%
Marathi92,2981%
7,0121%
Assamese1,2771%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Kumaar is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname35 records spelled Kumaar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Кумаар

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Kumaar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls11M#1
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls6M#2
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls2.1M#3
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls2.1M#2
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls1.4M#2
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls1.2M#3
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls582K#4
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls365K#3
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls92K#150
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls74K#2
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls1.3K#356
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)645#4,356

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 23 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kumaar?
We estimate roughly 1.7 million people bear Kumaar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Kumaar have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.7 million people bear Kumaar in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kumar.
How common is Kumaar compared with other names?
In India, Kumaar is the most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Kumaar” — the most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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