Karmakar
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kɔrmɔkar/(machine-generated) Bangla · model-generated · read from কর্মকার
Karmakar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 210Kfew records
- FIFinland1 in 214K
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 Karmakar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
624,928 named Kormokar
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Karmakar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #181 | 624,928as Kormokar | 1 in 2.1K | 625K | Karmakar | 168 |
| BD Bangladesh | #106 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Karmakar | 56 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 614K | — | Karmakar | 2 |
| US United States | — | 200 | 1 in 1.7M | 373 | Karmakar | 125 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Karmakar | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Karmakar | 15 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Karmakar | 3 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Karmakar | 2 |
624,928 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling kormokar. 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)- Nemai Chandra Karmakarb. 1963researcher
- Romuald Karmakarb. 1965DEGerman film director and screenwriter
- Chandan K. KarmakarAUresearcher
- Anirban KarmakarINresearcher
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Karmakar?
- In Bangla /kɔrmɔkar/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Karmakar have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 625 thousand people named Kormokar, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Karmakar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 200 people named Karmakar in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
- How common is Karmakar compared with other names?
- In India, Karmakar is the 181st most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karmakar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karmakarThe 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, “Karmakar” — the 181st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.