Dhavala

surname · Latin script

Meaning: promoter of Dharma. handsome; beautiful

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Dhavala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 3.2M(measured from records)
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 1.2M
  • USUnited States≈1 in 6.2M

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)

420 people

Sources
61 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Singapore, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

promoter of Dharma. handsome; beautiful.

Sources 1

  • The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dhavala 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.

Where Dhavala is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India4201 in 3.2M420Dhavala61
US United States≈54 est.≈1 in 6.2MlistedDhavala55
GB United Kingdom≈10 est.≈1 in 6.6M—Dhavala8
SG Singapore≈5 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Dhavala3
CA Canada≈3 est.≈1 in 11M—Dhavala4

420 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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Dhavala is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Dhavaḷā

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Dhavala is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In pi, white

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Dhavala
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—865#4,414
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—420#10,511
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#48,334
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#37,740
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Dhavala mean, and where does it come from?
promoter of Dharma. handsome; beautiful. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
In which country does Dhavala have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 420 people named Dhavala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dhavala.
How common is the name Dhavala?
In India, the national register counted 420 people named Dhavala, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.

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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, “Dhavala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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