Khalkhali

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008

/kəlkɑɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 225K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SESweden≈1 in 739K
  • ESSpain1 in 848K

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.

Morocco (inferred from the name graph)

≈160 people, est.

Record sources
53 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 225K (inferred from the name graph)

Morocco, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Khalkhali 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 Khalkhali is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MA Morocco≈160 est.≈1 in 225K—Khalkhali13
IR Iran≈89 est.≈1 in 955K—Khalkhali30
ES Spain591 in 848K59Khalkhali4
US United States≈41 est.≈1 in 8.2MlistedKhalkhali53
DE Germany≈25 est.≈1 in 3.2M—Khalkhali23
SE Sweden≈14 est.≈1 in 739K—Khalkhali4
BE Belgium71 in 1.7M7Khalkhali5

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)

Khalkhali is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Iran, Honduras

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Khalkhâlî

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Khalkhālī, Khalkhâlî

  • Pashto surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iran

    Also written Khalkhālī

29 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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)
FormalDear Khalkhali,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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

How do you pronounce Khalkhali?
A machine transcription gives /kəlkɑɫi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Khalkhali have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 158 people named Khalkhali in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khalkhali.
How common is the name Khalkhali?
In Spain, the national register counted 59 people named Khalkhali, about 1 in 848 thousand 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, “Khalkhali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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