Kumari

surname · Hindi · Latin script

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

Kumari 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 Sinhala, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (»Mädchen; Tochter«), Beiname von Durga,.

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 · Hindi●78M records
কুমারBengali · Bangla●53K records
กุมารThai · Thai●2.3K records
КумарCyrillic · Kazakh●455 records
කුමාරSinhala · Sinhala●45 records
കുമാർMalayalam · Malayalam●36 records
કુમારGujarati · Gujarati●12 records
ᲙუმარGeorgian · Georgian●10 records
ਕੁਮਾਰGurmukhi · Punjabi●7 records
קומאריHebrew · Hebrew●5 records
କୁମାରOdia · Odia●1 records
쿠마리Hangul · Korean●1 records
కుమరTelugu · Telugu●0 records
ಕುಮಾರKannada · Kannada●0 records
குமாரTamil · Tamil●0 records
ΚουμαριGreek · Greek●0 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 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●

recorded in German

weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (»Mädchen; Tochter«), Beiname von Durga,

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Where in the world●

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

Where Kumari 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●

  • Hindi7.1M87%
  • Sinhala326K4%
  • Bangla183K2%
  • Indonesian105K1%
  • English92K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi7,110,82787%
Sinhala326,3394%
Bangla183,2082%
Indonesian105,0321%
English91,8941%

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◐

Kumari is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Nepali surname87K records spelled Kumari3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nepal, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Also written Kumārī, Kumāri

  • a separate surname27K records spelled Kumari5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Also written Kumārī, Kumāri, Kūmārī, Kumarī

  • Hungarian surname11K records spelled Kumari6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Kümårï, Ķumaŕi, Kumári

  • Croatian surname3.2K records spelled Kumari9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Кумари

  • Russian surname2.2K records spelled Kumari11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Кумари, Кумарі, Cumari, Kumārī

  • Czech surname2.0K records spelled Kumari4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Czechia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Kumārī, Kùmäŕî

  • a separate surname523 records spelled Kumari2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Kùmârî

27 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.

Other recorded senses●

Kumari is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Chica, hija

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In English, A living goddess; a prepubescent girl worshipped as a manifestation of divine female energy.

    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.

Over time●

05K10K15K20K19001920194019601980200017K · 1993

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Kumari in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189915
19001
19071
190826
19111
19132
19141
19152
19167
191711
191815
191925
192052
192137
192257
1923149
192455
192541
192628
192741
192862
192991
193067
193166
1932136
1933119
1934186
1935145
1936179
1937222
1938212
1939273
1940255
1941241
1942406
1943289
1944510
1945434
1946576
1947529
1948460
1949533
1950609
1951522
1952908
1953586
1954813
1955833
1956906
1957914
19581,127
19591,328
19601,213
19611,250
19621,945
19631,573
19641,998
19651,902
19662,005
19672,366
19682,098
19692,294
19702,746
19712,738
19723,359
19733,254
19743,629
19753,791
19763,953
19773,978
19784,106
19794,231
19801,789
19815,112
19826,218
19837,330
19848,121
19858,098
19866,087
19879,707
19888,595
19899,754
199010,420
199112,638
199214,918
199317,255
199415,976
199517,061
199611,792
199711,540
19988,209
1999475
200021
200118
20027
20033
20081,460
20098
20101,188
201180
2012186
2013145
20142,902
2015912
20163
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 106 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Eerik Kumari, b. 1912Meena Kumari, b. 1933Krishna Kumari, b. 1933Diya Kumari, b. 1971Krishna Kumari Kolhi, b. 1979Raja Kumari, b. 1986Babita Kumari, b. 1989Deepika Kumari, b. 1994Sangita Kumari, b. 2001

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●

Attested in 45 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Kumari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—46K#14
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199317K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199517K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199416K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199215K—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—14K#774
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199113K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199612K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199712K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203K#10,215
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010990#25,083
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020719#14,716

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 315 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Kumari?
We estimate roughly 1.7 million people bear Kumari (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Kumari have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.7 million people bear Kumari in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled kumar.
How common is Kumari compared with other names?
In India, Kumari is the most common surname of 2,352,292 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Kumari mean?
Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (»Mädchen; Tochter«), Beiname von Durga,
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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, “Kumari” — the most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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