Phakala
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Phakala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 186Kas Pakala(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 423Kas Pagala
- USUnited States1 in 1.7Mas Pagala
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Phakala itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
3,134 named Pagala
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland, as Pakala
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pakana in IN India and ปะกาหลา in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Phakala counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
3,134 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling pagala. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #24,983 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Phakala have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Pagala, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Phakala most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Phakala itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 186 thousand people named Pakala.
- How common is the name Phakala?
- In India, the national register counted 3,134 people named Pagala, about 1 in 423 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Phakala?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/phakalaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Phakala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.