Kumal
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: NPHC 2021, 2021
Kumal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- NPNepal1 in 234(measured from records)
- QAQatar≈1 in 9.4Kfew records
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 45Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 234 (inferred from the name graph)
129,702 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal
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)Kumal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | 129,702 | 1 in 234 | 130K | Kumal | 42 |
| IN India | — | 722 | 1 in 1.8M | 722 | Kumal | 10 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Kumal | 12 |
| QA Qatar | #456 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Kumal | 7 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Kumal | 5 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Kumal | 10 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Kumal | 8 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Kumal | 6 |
129,702 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. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kumal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In chl, A type of wooden spoon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, rumpled
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ppl, comal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only | 2021 | 130K | #24 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 722 | #7,012 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 23 | #71,173 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kumal have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 130 thousand people named Kumal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kumal.
- Where is Kumal most common?
- Kumal is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 234 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kumal?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 129,702 people named Kumal in 2021, about 1 in 234 residents.
- How common is Kumal compared with other names?
- In Qatar, Kumal is the 456th most common surname of 15,902 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kumalThe 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, “Kumal” — the 456th most common surname in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.