Kher (surname)

Kher or Khar is a Kashmiri Pandit clan or surname, native to the Kashmir Valley in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Usage
Kher/Khar as a last name is used by Kashmiri Brahmins.

Multiple Kashmiri surnames have been attached to a Kashmiri person because of the appearance of any of their ancestors in past with any animal or a bird, which later became the family's surname. Khar means donkey in the Kashmiri language. Hence it is safe to conclude that Khar or Kher as a last name used by a Kashmiri means that the physical appearance of one of their ancestors resembled that of a donkey.

Notable people

 * B. G. Kher (1888–1957)- Politician
 * Govind Ballal Kher (1710)- Military of Peshwas in Bundelkhand