Kothari
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hindu (Bania, Vania) and Jain name meaning ‘storekeeper’ in Gujarati, from kotha ‘granary’, ‘store’ (Sanskrit kosthaka)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɑθɝi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kothari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 161K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 210K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 59K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
6,328 people
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hindu (Bania, Vania) and Jain name meaning ‘storekeeper’ in Gujarati, from kotha ‘granary’, ‘store’ (Sanskrit kosthaka). Several Bania communities have clans called Kothari.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kothari 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 | 6,328 | 1 in 210K | 6.3K | Kothari | 247 |
| US United States | 2,071 | 1 in 161K | 2.7K | Kothari | 285 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Kothari | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Kothari | 80 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Kothari | 15 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Kothari | 68 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Kothari | 17 |
| SG Singapore | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Kothari | 29 |
6,328 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kothari is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An Indian surname.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rajni Kotharib. 1928INIndian writer
- Komal Kotharib. 1929INIndian folklorist
- D. P. Kotharib. 1944INIndian academic
- Ashish Kotharib. 1961INIndian ecologist
- Rita Kotharib. 1969INGujarati and English language author and translator
- Kyle Kotharib. 1998GBBritish diver
- Khushi KothariINIndian actress
- Robin KothariCAresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-6114-943X
- Vishal KothariUSresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-3612-8810)
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6.3K | #1,331 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,427 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,055 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 864 | #4,421 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Kothari come from?
- Hindu (Bania, Vania) and Jain name meaning ‘storekeeper’ in Gujarati, from kotha ‘granary’, ‘store’ (Sanskrit kosthaka). Several Bania communities have clans called Kothari. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kothari?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑθɝi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Kothari mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hindu (Bania, Vania) and Jain name meaning ‘storekeeper’ in Gujarati, from kotha ‘granary’, ‘store’ (Sanskrit kosthaka).
- In which country does Kothari have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Kothari, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kothari.
- How common is the name Kothari?
- In India, the national register counted 6,328 people named Kothari, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kothariThe 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, “Kothari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.