Ghoshal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ghoshal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Bengali ঘোষাল (ghōśal).
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 30Kas Ghosal
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 154K
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 Ghoshal 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)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)
44,208 named Ghosal
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ghosal in US United States, MY Malaysia, SG Singapore and 1 more.
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(measured from records)
Transliteration of Bengali ঘোষাল (ghōśal).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ghoshal 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 | #805 | 44,208as Ghosal | 1 in 30K | 44K | Ghoshal | 141 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Ghoshal | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 509K | — | Ghoshal | 2 |
| US United States | — | 164 | 1 in 2M | 239 | Ghosal | 129 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Ghosal | 6 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Ghosal | 12 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Ghosal | 1 |
44,208 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling ghosal. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ghoshal 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 English, A surname from Bengali.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Swarnakumari Devib. 1855INnot in their usual nameIndian writer, editor, essayist, poet, novelist, musician and social worker (1855/1856-1932)
- Sarala Devi Chaudhuranib. 1872INnot in their usual nameIndian activist
- Hiranmoy Ghoshalb. 1908INBengali writer, translator, diplomat and linguist
- Shreya Ghoshalb. 1984INIndian playback singer
- Papia Ghoshalb. 1984INIndian painter, poet and artist
- Sharat Chandra GhoshalBengali writer
- S. N. GhoshalINIndian painter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.4K | #2,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 239 | #84,529 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 192 | #2,376 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 164 | #108,199 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 101 | #149,328 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #826 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #7,657 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ghoshal mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of Bengali ঘোষাল (ghōśal). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Ghoshal have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named Ghosal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ghoshal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 164 people named Ghoshal in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Ghoshal compared with other names?
- In India, Ghoshal is the 805th 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/ghoshalThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ghoshal” — the 805th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.