Chahal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Punjabi
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃahəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chahal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 40K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 46K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Punjabi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chahal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Chahal | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Chahal | 138 |
| US United States | — | 1,578 | 1 in 211K | 2.4K | Chahal | 226 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Chahal | 134 |
| IN India | — | 1,250 | 1 in 1.1M | 1.3K | Chahal | 154 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Chahal | 94 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Chahal | 23 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Chahal | 14 |
| BH Bahrain | #891 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Chahal | 2 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
- Randa Chahal Sabagb. 1953LBLebanese film director (1953–2008)
- Gor Chahalb. 1961RURussian painter
- George Chahalb. 1975CACanadian politician
- Mahek Chahalb. 1979NOIndian Norwegian Bollywood actress and model
- Gurbaksh Chahalb. 1982INAmerican businessman
- Harmanb. 1991INnot in their usual namePunjabi poet
- Sonia Chahalb. 1997INIndian boxer
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,523 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #247 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,752 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.3K | #4,612 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 728 | #30,324 |
| 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 Chahal mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chahal?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃahəɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Chahal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Chahal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chahal.
- How common is the name Chahal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,578 people named Chahal in 2010, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
- How common is Chahal compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Chahal is the 891st most common surname of 8,798 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chahalThe 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, “Chahal” — the 891st most common surname in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.