Kesar Surname
Approximately 4,564 people bear this surname
Kesar Surname Definition:
V. Kaiser.
The antique shapes of kings and kesars straunge and rare.— The Faerie Queene, II. VII. 5.
Kesar Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 3,263 | 1:235,080 | 13,736 |
| Pakistan | 295 | 1:605,572 | 9,634 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 238 | 1:14,859 | 2,820 |
| Ukraine | 205 | 1:222,062 | 29,588 |
| United States | 100 | 1:3,624,589 | 201,936 |
| Serbia | 72 | 1:99,235 | 7,980 |
| Russia | 68 | 1:2,119,457 | 129,651 |
| Croatia | 59 | 1:71,671 | 12,734 |
| Iran | 45 | 1:1,706,278 | 64,723 |
| Indonesia | 38 | 1:3,480,242 | 186,493 |
| England | 23 | 1:2,422,524 | 89,093 |
| Guyana | 19 | 1:40,117 | 3,928 |
| South Africa | 17 | 1:3,186,924 | 115,449 |
| Cambodia | 15 | 1:1,032,476 | 5,479 |
| Sweden | 12 | 1:820,563 | 61,223 |
| Slovenia | 12 | 1:207,306 | 15,422 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 9 | 1:151,553 | 8,353 |
| Canada | 9 | 1:4,093,955 | 205,175 |
| United Arab Emirates | 8 | 1:1,145,284 | 40,289 |
| Algeria | 7 | 1:5,518,793 | 51,529 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Belarus | 5 | 1:1,900,212 | 97,012 |
| Kazakhstan | 5 | 1:3,536,499 | 118,599 |
| Nepal | 4 | 1:7,120,239 | 14,461 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Australia | 3 | 1:8,998,567 | 200,784 |
| Israel | 3 | 1:2,852,545 | 113,505 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Moldova | 2 | 1:1,780,684 | 55,103 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| Armenia | 1 | 1:2,930,180 | 22,770 |
| Austria | 1 | 1:8,515,435 | 118,036 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1:884,876 | 13,055 |
| Transnistria | 1 | 1:474,699 | 17,893 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Mexico | 1 | 1:124,126,205 | 103,776 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 1:2,789,927 | 129,797 |
The alternate forms: Kešar (9) are calculated separately.
Kesar (154,464) may also be a first name.
Kesar Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
V. Kaiser.
The antique shapes of kings and kesars straunge and rare.— The Faerie Queene, II. VII. 5.
Kesar Demographics
Kesar Political Affiliation
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Kesar Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kesar Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Kesar (Arabic: كيسار, Bengali: কেসর, Hindi: केसर, Marathi: केसर, Oriya: େକସର, Russian: Кесарь, Tibetan: ཀེ་སར་) is more commonly found in India than any other country or territory. It can also appear as a variant: Kešar. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Kesar? popularity and diffusion
It is the 103,098th most frequently held family name throughout the world It is held by around 1 in 1,596,745 people. This surname is primarily found in Asia, where 81 percent of Kesar reside; 79 percent reside in South Asia and 45 percent reside in Indo-South Asia. Kesar is also the 6,798th most frequently occurring first name throughout the world. It is borne by 154,464 people.
This surname is most widespread in India, where it is held by 3,263 people, or 1 in 235,080. In India it is most common in: Jammu and Kashmir, where 37 percent reside, Uttar Pradesh, where 11 percent reside and Bihar, where 10 percent reside. Other than India Kesar occurs in 46 countries. It also occurs in Pakistan, where 6 percent reside and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 5 percent reside.
Kesar Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Kesar has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Kesar surname rose 556 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kesar Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the last name is primarily Orthodox (75%) in Russia and Orthodox (75%) in Ukraine.
In The United States those holding the Kesar surname are 16.39% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 63.16% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Kesar earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 50.85% more than the national average, earning R 358,476 per year and in United States they earn 9.44% less than the national average, earning $39,076 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kesar Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kesar in the Bengali language | ||
| কেসর | kesara | - |
| Kesar in the Hindi language | ||
| केसर | kesara | 99.67 |
| केशर | kesara | 0.09 |
| केसार | kesara | 0.04 |
| कॆसर | kesara | 0.04 |
| केसरा | kesara | 0 |
| क्ेसर | kesara | 0 |
| किशर | kisara | 0 |
| केशी | kesi | 0 |
| केसु | kesu | 0 |
| केशारा | kesara | 0 |
| केशरी | kesari | 0 |
| केसरी | kesari | 0 |
| सोसर | sosara | 0 |
| कॅसर | kesara | 0 |
| Kesar in the Marathi language | ||
| केसर | kesara | 86.91 |
| केसरिंसग | kesarinsaga | 7.26 |
| केशर | kesara | 0.81 |
| केशव | kesava | 0.47 |
| कॅसर | kesara | 0.34 |
| केसार | kesara | 0.19 |
| सर | sara | 0.03 |
| कासर | kasara | 0.03 |
| केस | kesa | 0.03 |
| केदारी | kedari | 0.03 |
| ेवार | evara | 0.03 |
| केदार | kedara | 0.03 |
| सारी | sari | 0.03 |
| केसरी | kesari | 0.03 |
| Kesar in the Oriya language | ||
| େକସର | ekasara | 85.42 |
| େକଶର | ekasara | 10.42 |
| େକୖଶର | ekasara | 2.08 |
| େକଶାର | ekasara | 2.08 |
| Kesar in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཀེ་སར་ | késar | 37.04 |
| ཀི་སར་ | kisar | 25.93 |
| ཀི་ཤར་ | kishar | 11.11 |
| ཀེ་ཤར་ | késhar | 11.11 |
| ཀེ་སཱར་ | késar | 7.41 |
| ཀེ་ས་རི་ | késari | 3.7 |
| སྐྱེས་གསར་ | kyésar | 3.7 |
| Kesar in the Russian language | ||
| Кесарь | kesar | - |
| Kesar in the Arabic language | ||
| كيسار | kysar | - |
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