Johal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sikh name of unknown meaning, based on the name of a tribe in the Jat community
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Johal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 20K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 86K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Sikh name of unknown meaning, based on the name of a tribe in the Jat community.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Johal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Johal | 191 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Johal | 154 |
| US United States | 1,255 | 1 in 265K | 1.7K | Johal | 244 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Johal | 13 |
| AU Australia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Johal | 80 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Johal | 14 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Johal | 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: 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)
- Nachhatar Singh Johalb. 1979INIndian yacht racer
- Kuldesh Johalb. 1980GBBritish snooker player
- Aman Johalb. 1993CACanadian actor
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,290 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,971 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 735 | #30,091 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Johal mean, and where does it come from?
- Sikh name of unknown meaning, based on the name of a tribe in the Jat community. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Johal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Johal in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled johal.
- How common is the name Johal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,255 people named Johal in 2010, about 1 in 265 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/johalThe 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, “Johal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.