Khawas

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 489K(measured from records)
  • NPNepal1 in 1.3K
  • PLPoland1 in 2.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Nepal (measured from records)

22,551 people, 2021

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Nepal

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Khawas 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 Khawas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NP Nepal22,5511 in 1.3K23K—1
IN India2,7131 in 489K2.7KKhawas71
PL Poland171 in 2.3M13——
US United States——listedKhawas30
MY Malaysia———Khawas7
PK Pakistan———Khawas12

22,551 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Khawas 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 Khawaṣ

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Khawas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NP NepalNPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only202123K#60
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—2.7K#2,481
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—170#136
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—29#834
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—29#4,266
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—22#2,563
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202613—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—13#115,717
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—12#15,672
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20264—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—4#224,981
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

In which country does Khawas have the most bearers?
In Nepal, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Khawas, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Khawas most common?
Khawas is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Khawas?
In Nepal, the national register counted 22,551 people named Khawas in 2021, about 1 in 1.3 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, “Khawas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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