Sunar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular indicative aorist of sunmak
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries
/sunaɾ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Sunar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- NPNepal≈1 in 370few records(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 3.4Kfew records
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 9.6K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 373 (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person singular indicative aorist of sunmak
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sunar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 373 | — | Sunar | 62 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Sunar | 61 |
| IN India | — | 4,513 | 1 in 294K | 4.5K | Sunar | 20 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #601 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Sunar | 20 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #498 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Sunar | 17 |
| QA Qatar | #183 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Sunar | 9 |
| BH Bahrain | #847 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sunar | 4 |
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. 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)Sunar 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.
In Turkish, "Saygılı bir biçimde verir, takdim eder" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Tatar, hunting (with dogs)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, light, radiance
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In vec, to gather, pick
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)- Ömer Sunarb. 1918TRTurkish statesperson (1918–1979)
- Mine Sunarb. 1933TRTurkish painter and sculptor (1933–2015)
- Ozan Sunarb. 1964TRTurkish actor (born 1964)
- Goncagül Sunarb. 1970TRTurkish actor (born 1970)
- Erdal Sunarb. 1982TRTurkish weightlifter (born 1982)
- Berk SunarTRTurkish academic
- Irem SunarTRTurkish writer
- Nur SunarTRTurkish academic
- Ayşe Saliha SunarTRTurkish researcher
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 4.5K | #1,684 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.8K | #130 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Sunar mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular indicative aorist of sunmak Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sunar?
- In Turkish /sunaɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Sunar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Sunar in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sunar.
- How common is the name Sunar?
- In India, the national register counted 4,513 people named Sunar, about 1 in 294 thousand residents.
- How common is Sunar compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Sunar is the 183rd most common surname of 15,902 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sunarThe 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, “Sunar” — the 183rd most common surname in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.