Khokhar
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/koʊkɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Khokhar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 324K
- INIndia1 in 1.5M
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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
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)
Khokhar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #302 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 6 | Khokhar | 102 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Khokhar | 2 |
| US United States | — | 1,026 | 1 in 324K | 1.3K | Khokhar | 146 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 283K | — | Khokhar | 3 |
| IN India | — | 899 | 1 in 1.5M | 899 | Khokhar | 117 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Khokhar | 47 |
| NO Norway | — | 160 | 1 in 34K | 160 | Khokhar | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 52 | 1 in 113K | 52 | — | — |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Riaz Khokharb. 1942PKPakistani diplomat (1942–2023)
- Philip Khokharb. 1979DKDanish journalist
- Noel Israel KhokharPKPakistani Military Officer
- Ashfaq A. KhokharUSPh.D. University of Southern California 1993
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,121 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,404 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 899 | #5,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 593 | #35,797 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 160 | #9,851 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 62 | #5,161 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 52 | #10,154 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 6 | #133 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Khokhar?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊkɑɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Khokhar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 173 thousand people named Khokhar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khokhar.
- How common is the name Khokhar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,026 people named Khokhar in 2010, about 1 in 324 thousand residents.
- How common is Khokhar compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Khokhar is the 302nd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khokharThe 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, “Khokhar” — the 302nd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.