Nagar
loc · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name from Hebrew nagar ‘carpenter’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nagar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 58K(measured from records)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 19K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 40K
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
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
23,027 people
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
occupational name from Hebrew nagar ‘carpenter’. As an Israeli name, it sometimes represents a translation into Hebrew of Ashkenazic names with the same meaning, for example Zimmermann and Tesler.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nagar 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 | 23,027 | 1 in 58K | 23K | Nagar | 207 |
| EG Egypt | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Nagar | 54 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | Nagar | 15 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Nagar | 11 |
| US United States | 574 | 1 in 580K | 876 | — | 182 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Nagar | 39 |
23,027 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)
Nagar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
penter, Hebr. nagar. Vars.: Naggar; Nager (if this name is indeed related to Nagar, it shows alteration of the final vowel under Yid. influence; if not, it is from Nager (see Naher) ; Nagari (with the Hebr. suffix -i). Patr. (E Ashkenazic): Nagarin (with the Slav, suffix -in).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
Hindu (Kayasth) name, from Sanskrit ndgara ‘urban’ (from Sanskrit nagara ‘city’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
penter, Hebr. nagar. Nacewicz see Ignace Nachimovski see Nahum
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, A surname of Indian usage.
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)
- Shanti Lal Nagarb. 1927INIndian art historian
- Gajraj Bahadur Nagarb. 1928Indian politician (1928 – 2001)
- Shalom Nagarb. 1930ILIsraeli prison guard
- Lilith Nagarb. 1935ILTelevision personality
- Pradeep Nagarb. 1989INIndian actor
- Sumit Nagarb. 1998INIndian cricketer
- Krishna Nagarb. 1999INIndian para badminton player (born 1999)
- Ajey Nagarb. 1999INIndian YouTuber and streamer (born 1999)
- Manisha Nagaractress
- Neil NagarUSastrophysicist
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 23K | #543 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5.3K | #217 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 876 | #28,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 574 | #38,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 371 | #52,500 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Nagar come from?
- occupational name from Hebrew nagar ‘carpenter’. As an Israeli name, it sometimes represents a translation into Hebrew of Ashkenazic names with the same meaning, for example Zimmermann and Tesler. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Nagar mean?
- Recorded meaning: occupational name from Hebrew nagar ‘carpenter’.
- In which country does Nagar have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Nagar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nagar.
- How common is the name Nagar?
- In India, the national register counted 23,027 people named Nagar, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
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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, “Nagar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.