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Kumar (; Sanskrit: कुमार) is a Hindu title, a given name, middle name, or a family name found in India, though not specific to any caste or community. It is a generic title which variously means son, boy, prince, chaste. It is the 8th most common family name in the world.[1] It is more common in Northern India and the most common family name in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana, Delhi, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.[1]
History
The origin of kumar can be traced back to early development of Hinduism and its origin in India. The first usage of Kumar was for the Four Kumāras, the four sons of Brahma from the Puranic texts of Hinduism named Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanandana, and Sanat.
In Skanda Purana, the largest Mahapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts, the text is devoted mainly to the leelas of Kartikeya, son of Shiva and Parvati. "Kumar" is used to refer Kartikeya.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 97.3% of all known bearers of the surname Kumar were residents of India. The frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states and union territories:[2]
- 1. Himachal Pradesh (1: 9)
- 2. Chandigarh (1: 10)
- 3. Delhi (1: 11)
- 3. Haryana (1: 11)
- 4. Bihar (1: 15)
- 5. Jammu and Kashmir (1: 16)
- 5. Uttar Pradesh (1: 16)
- 6. Uttarakhand (1: 28)
- 7. Rajasthan (1: 30)
- 8. Punjab (1: 39)
Notable people
First name
- Kumar Basnet, (born 1943) Nepalese folk singer
- Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir, Nepalese Buddhist monk
- Colonel Kumar Lama, Nepalese military officer
- Kumar Gaurav, Indian film actor
- Kumar Pradhan, Nepalese scholar
- Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji, cricketer who played for England
- Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, AKA K. S. Ranjitsinhji, Indian prince, maharaja and Test cricketer
- Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team
- Kumar Sanu, Indian Bollywood playback singer
- Kumar Vishwas, Hindi-language performance poet
Middle name
- Ajith Kumar Siriwardena, Sri Lankan Briton professor of hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, a leading physicist
- Amrit Kumar Bohara, Nepalese politician
- Anil Kumar Jha, (born 1969) Nepalese politician
- Anjani Kumar Sharma, Nepalese surgeon
- Arjun Kumar Basnet, (born 1975) Nepalese marathon runner
- General Arunkumar Vaidya,[3] the former Chief of Indian Army
- Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar, Nepalese politician
- Devendra Kumar Joshi, the Indian Chief of Naval Staff
- Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, a Bengali singer, composer and producer
- Inder Kumar Gujral, an Indian politician who served as the 12th Prime Minister of India
- Keshav Kumar Budhathoki, Nepali politician
- Madhav Kumar Nepal, Former Prime Minister of Nepal
- Pawan Kumar Chamling, an Sikkimese politician who served as the 5th Chief Minister of Sikkim
- Pradip Kumar Rai known as Byakul Maila, Nepalese poet
- Prem Kumar Dhumal, chief minister of Indian state
- Roop Kumar Rathod, an Indian playback singer and music director
- Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, Nepalese diplomat
- Shiv Kumar Batalvi, a Punjabi language poet
- Sunil Kumar Yadav, Nepalese politician
- Suniti Kumar Chatterji, an Indian linguist, educationist and litterateur
- Tej Kumar Shrestha, Nepalese zoologist
- Vijay Kumar Pandey, Nepalese journalist
- Vijay Kumar Singh, Indian politician and a retired four star general in the Indian Army
- Vinod Kumar Shukla, modern Hindi writer
Last name
- Aanchal Kumar, Indian model and actress
- Ajith Kumar, an Indian film actor who works mainly in Tamil cinema
- Akhil Kumar, an Indian boxer who has won several international and national boxing awards
- Akshay Kumar, stage name of Indian-Canadian film actor, producer and martial artist, Rajiv Bhatia
- Amit Kumar, Indian film playback singer, actor, and director
- Amitava Kumar, Indian writer, journalist, professor
- Anand Kumar, Indian mathematician
- Anil Kumar, businessman, consultant
- Ashok Kumar, AKA Dadamoni in Bengali, Indian film actor
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian pace bowler
- Darshan Kumar, Indian actor
- Dilip Kumar, one of The Greatest Indian (Bollywood)film actor known as the 'Tragedy King' and a former Member of Parliament
- Girish Kumar, Indian film actor
- G. V. Prakash Kumar, Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer
- Gulshan Kumar, T-Series music label owner
- Indra Kumar, an Indian film director and producer
- Jitender Kumar (flyweight boxer), an Indian flyweight boxer
- Kishore Kumar, Indian film playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter
- Manoj Kumar (boxer), Indian boxer who won a gold medal in the light welterweight division at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Manoj Kumar, an award-winning Indian actor and director in the Bollywood
- Meira Kumar, an Indian politician and a five time Member of Parliament
- Nirmalya Kumar, professor and businessman
- Nish Kumar, British comedian
- Nitish Kumar, Indian politician
- Pawan Kumar, several people, including:
- Pawan Kumar (director), Indian film director, actor, producer, and screenwriter
- Pawan Kumar (wrestler), Indian wrestler
- Praveen Kumar, Indian medium-pace swing bowler
- Raaj Kumar, Indian film actor
- Ritu Kumar, Indian fashion designer
- Sanjay Kumar, former CEO of Computer Associates
- Cheyliboyina komal Kumar anudeep Yadav drnks and smokes a lot.Anudeep Yadav smokes two packets of cigrattes everyday., or Shashikumar, Indian actor and politician
- Srini Kumar, Indian Entrepreneur and publisher, founder of unamerican.com
- Sushil Kumar, several people, including:
- Sushil Kumar (scholar), Gandhian scholar
- Sushil Kumar (wrestler), Indian World Champion wrestler
- Tulsi Kumar, an Indian playback singer for Bollywood films
- Uttam Kumar, The Greatest actor of Indian (Bengali) cinema and contemporary of Dilip Kumar, the Bollywood legend
- Uttar Kumar, famous actor in north India
- Venkatesh Kumar, Hindustani vocalist.
- Vijay Kumar (sport shooter), Indian champion shooter, Olympic 2012 silver medalist
- Vinay Kumar, Indian cricket player
- Vinay Kumar (pathologist), the Alice Hogge & Arthur Baer Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago
See also
Notes
- ^ a b http://forebears.co.uk/surnames/kumar Kumar Surname at Forebears
- ^ Kumar Surname Distribution
- ^ "Land Forces Site - General Arunkumar Sridhar Vaidya". Bharat Rakshak. Archived from the original on 2014-01-10. Retrieved 2014-01-10.
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