Khandelwal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khandelwal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi खण्डेलवाल (khaṇḍelvāl), from खण्डेला (khaṇḍelā, “Khandela, a city in Rajasthan, India”) + -वाला (-vālā); the first element being from Sanskrit खड्ग (khaḍga, “sword”).
- INIndia1 in 216K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 537K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 26K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
6,143 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, 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)
- Hindiखण्डेलवालkhaṇḍelvāl(measured from records)
- Hindi rootखण्डेलाkhaṇḍelā“Khandela, a city in Rajasthan, India”(measured from records)
- Sanskritखड्गkhaḍga“sword”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hindi खण्डेलवाल (khaṇḍelvāl), from खण्डेला (khaṇḍelā, “Khandela, a city in Rajasthan, India”) + -वाला (-vālā); the first element being from Sanskrit खड्ग (khaḍga, “sword”).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khandelwal 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 | #982 | 6,143 | 1 in 216K | 6.1K | Khandelwal | 247 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Khandelwal | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Khandelwal | 11 |
| US United States | — | 620 | 1 in 537K | 1.3K | Khandelwal | 226 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Khandelwal | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Khandelwal | 48 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Khandelwal | 30 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Khandelwal | 6 |
6,143 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; 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)
- Praveen Khandelwalb. 1960INIndian businessman (born 1960)
- Varun KhandelwalINactor
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6.1K | #1,359 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.5K | #365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 620 | #36,154 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 247 | #73,154 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Khandelwal mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hindi खण्डेलवाल (khaṇḍelvāl), from खण्डेला (khaṇḍelā, “Khandela, a city in Rajasthan, India”) + -वाला (-vālā); the first element being from Sanskrit खड्ग (khaḍga, “sword”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Khandelwal have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 6.1 thousand people named Khandelwal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khandelwal.
- How common is the name Khandelwal?
- In India, the national register counted 6,143 people named Khandelwal, about 1 in 216 thousand residents.
- How common is Khandelwal compared with other names?
- In India, Khandelwal is the 982nd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Khandelwal” — the 982nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.