Aggarwal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Agrawal
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Aggarwal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 14Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 17K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 33Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
16,760 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Alternative form of Agrawal.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aggarwal 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #410 | 16,760 | 1 in 79K | 17K | Aggarwal | 269 |
| US United States | — | 2,500 | 1 in 133K | 4K | Aggarwal | 318 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Aggarwal | 21 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Aggarwal | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Aggarwal | 141 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #703 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Aggarwal | 69 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Aggarwal | 126 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Aggarwal | 44 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Aggarwal | 9 |
16,760 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- J. K. Aggarwalb. 1936INAmerican engineer (born 1936)
- Bharat Aggarwalb. 1950USIndian-American biochemist
- Vinod Aggarwalb. 1953USprofessor
- Varinder Aggarwalb. 1961INProfessor of Synthetic Chemistry at the University of Bristol
- Rakesh Aggarwalb. 1961INIndian gastroenterologist
- Anu Aggarwalb. 1969INmodel and actress
- Kajal Aggarwalb. 1985INIndian actress (born 1985)
- Bhavish Aggarwalb. 1985INIndian chief executive officer
- Nisha Aggarwalb. 1989INIndian actress
- Reena AggarwalINIndian actress and model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 37K | #34 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 17K | #701 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #8,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,429 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,634 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #3,179 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #10,302 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #128,791 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #27,184 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,749 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aggarwal mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Agrawal. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Aggarwal have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Aggarwal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aggarwal.
- How common is the name Aggarwal?
- In India, the national register counted 16,760 people named Aggarwal, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is Aggarwal compared with other names?
- In India, Aggarwal is the 410th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aggarwalThe 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, “Aggarwal” — the 410th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.