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Kumar name meaning

“boy, son”

Letters
5
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Origin
Sanskrit · Hindi
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1980s: 6.3%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s6.2%
1980s6.3%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: KSanskrit origin

Kumar is a male name from Sanskrit meaning 'boy, son'.

What does Kumar mean?

Boy, son

In Malay: budak lelaki, anak lelaki

Sources (2)

About the name Kumar

Kumar is a modern form of Kumara, from Sanskrit kumāra meaning 'boy, son'. Kumara is also an epithet of Skanda. The name is used across many Indian languages. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 634 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Hindi
SyllablesKu-mar
First letterIndian Names starting with K
Devanagari scriptकुमार
Gurmukhi scriptਕੁਮਾਰ

Kumar in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Boy: 634 · 6.2%
1980s
Boy: 511 · 6.3%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Kumar as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Kumar · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Kumara · behindthename.com · meaning

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