Napal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/napal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Napal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 74K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 188K
- GYGuyana1 in 63Kas Nepal
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Napal 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
1,019 named Nepal
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nepala in IN India.
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)
Napal 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 | 1,019as Nepal | 1 in 1.3M | 1K | Nepala | 11 |
| US United States | 796as Nepal | 1 in 418K | 1.7K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 611 | 1 in 74K | 611 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 266 | 1 in 188K | 266 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 234as Nepali | 1 in 164K | 200 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 73as Nepal | 1 in 80K | 73 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 69as Nepal | 1 in 81K | 69 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 46as Nepali | 1 in 119K | 46 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 12as Nepal | 1 in 63K | 12 | — | — |
1,019 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling nepal. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Napal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, second-person singular imperative of napalić
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, complete aspect of mapal
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dionisio Napalb. 1887ARArgentinian catholic priest
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 611 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 266 | #13,243 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 266 | #13,238 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 150 | #17,228 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 34 | #56,737 |
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
- How do you pronounce Napal?
- A machine transcription gives /napal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Napal have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Napal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Napal is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Napal?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 611 people named Napal, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Napal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/napalThe 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, “Napal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.