Kher or Khar is a Kashmiri Pandit and Karhade Brahmin clan or surname, native to the Kashmir Valley in Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra, India.
Kher/Khar as a last name is used by Kashmiri Brahmins and Karhade 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.