Kotal

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 58K(measured from records)
  • THThailand≈1 in 19Kas โกศล
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Kosin

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kotal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

22,675 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)

India

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KotalLatin(measured from records)
โกศลThai(measured from records)

16 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled โกศล in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia.

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)

Kotal 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 Kotal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India22,6751 in 58K23KKotal58
TH Thailand≈3,700 est.≈1 in 19K#15,031โกศล93
ID Indonesia≈420 est.≈1 in 636K—โกศล1
PL Poland347as Kosin1 in 110K176—1
US United States312as Kosin1 in 1.1M376Kotal98
CZ Czechia1431 in 75K143—1
FI Finland38as Kosin1 in 147K38—1

22,675 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kotál

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, India, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Kotál

  • Croatian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Kotál

28 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kotal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, " Kotal , txatal -en antzekua da, ta berau lez atal -dik dator, ta 'pedazo, cacho' dikur" Euzk 1929, 165. Kotalik be eztozu itxi . Euzk 1929, 113.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Čeněk Kotal, b. 1841Eddie Kotal, b. 1902Karl Kotal, b. 1920Václav Kotal, b. 1952Pritam Kotal, b. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Kotal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—23K#550
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000145#112,365
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—143#11,876
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—143#6,555
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020140#127,742
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010136#126,018
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—23#57,986
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—5#27,490
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Kotal have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Kotal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kotal.
Where is Kotal most common?
Kotal is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 58 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kotal?
In India, the national register counted 22,675 people named Kotal, about 1 in 58 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, “Kotal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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