Upkar
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- oop-KAR
- Origin
- Punjabi
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- Style
- New arrival
Upkar is a girls' name of Punjabi origin, meaning “kindness, benevolence”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Upkar mean?
Punjabi: Punjabi upkar, from Sanskrit upakara
“kindness, benevolence”
Punjabi and Hindi word for a kindness or favour done to others.
Is Upkar a girl's or a boy's name?
Upkar is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Upkar in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Upkar, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Names like Upkar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gurmehar, Gurnoor, Avnoor, Gurnaaz, Gursanjh, Avneet, Japneet, Khivi, Harnoor, Nimrat, Ranjind, Hajar
More Punjabi names
Asees, Gurbaaz, Nirvair, Gurfateh, Jind, Baani, Akaal, Gurnawab, Jujhar, Ajooni, Mannat, Ekam, Gurniwaz, Avleen, Anhad, Harleen
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Upkar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/upkar, updated 20 October 2026.