Thar
loc · Latin script
Meaning: desert region, India, Pakistan (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Thar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Myanmar (Burma) than in any other country.
- MMMyanmar (Burma)≈1 in 640few records(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 253K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Myanmar (Burma) (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 636 (inferred from the name graph)
≈86,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Myanmar (Burma), 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
(measured from records)desert region, India, Pakistan
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Thar is found
(measured from records)Thar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | ≈86,000 est. | ≈1 in 636 | — | Thar | 44 |
| US United States | 181 | 1 in 1.8M | 343 | — | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 5 | — | 8 |
| FI Finland | 22 | 1 in 253K | 22 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 13 | 1 in 102M | 13 | — | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)Thar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Thara [Terah]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Nonstandard form of there.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of þeir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, to add ferment (to milk)
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)- Agnes Taarb. 1897EEnot in their usual nameEstonian writer and playwright (1897-1976)
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Thar mean, and where does it come from?
- desert region, India, Pakistan Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Thar?
- Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Thar in Myanmar (Burma), more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled thar. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Finland and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Thar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 181 people named Thar in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Thar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tharThe 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, “Thar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.