Rijal

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/rˈid͡ʒal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 59K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 82K
  • NONorway1 in 210K

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.

India (measured from records)

253 people

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

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.

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rijal 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 Rijal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—2531 in 5.2M253Rijal6
US United States—2171 in 1.5M670Rijal21
DK Denmark—1001 in 59K100——
PL Poland—711 in 539K59——
FI Finland—681 in 82K68——
NO Norway—261 in 210K26——
SE Sweden—101 in 1M10——
QA Qatar#593———Rijal10

253 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Rijal is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Also written Rîjäl

  • Bangla surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, India, Bangladesh

    Also written Rizal, রিজাল

37 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)

Rijal 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, riyal, rial; official currencies of Iran and various Arabian countries (Yemen, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia).

    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)

19201940196019802000Ganesh Prasad Rizal, b. 1920Ayush Rijal, b. 1980Pramila Rijal, b. 1985Muhammad Rijal, b. 1986Abhishek Rijal, b. 2000

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)

FormalYth. Bapak Rijal,Dear Bapak Rijal, (English)
InformalHalo Rijal,Hi Rijal, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Rijal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020670#36,002
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—253#15,034
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010217#86,005
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—128#1,283
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—100#5,448
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—68#17,489
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202659—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—59#44,419
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—26#37,754
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—26#9,422
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#122,877

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Rijal?
A machine transcription gives /rˈid͡ʒal/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
In which country does Rijal have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 253 people named Rijal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rijal.
Where is Rijal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rijal is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 59 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Rijal?
In India, the national register counted 253 people named Rijal, about 1 in 5.2 million residents.
How common is Rijal compared with other names?
In Qatar, Rijal is the 593rd most common surname of 15,902 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Rijal” — the 593rd most common surname in Qatar. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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