Kumar

At the 2020 census, 37,459 Americans bore the surname Kumar — 917th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,979.

By the numbers

People: 37,459
Rank: 917th
How common: 1 in 7,979
Per 100,000: 12.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kumar described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 90.6%
White, not Hispanic 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kumar

Akshay Kumar (born 1967)Actor
Chinmoy Kumar Ghose (1931–2007)Indian writer and spiritual teacher
Dilip Kumar (1922–2021)Indian actor and politician
Meira Kumar (born 1945)Indian politician
Sushil Kumar (born 1983)Indian wrestler
Ajith Kumar (born 1971)actor, racer and producer
Ashok Kumar (1911–2001)Indian actor
Nitish Kumar (born 1951)Indian politician and Current Chief Minister of Bihar

People named Kumar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kumar

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.