Sahgal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsɑɡəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sahgal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 173K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- EEEstonia≈1 in 100K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
7,660 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, 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)
Sahgal 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 | 7,660 | 1 in 173K | 7.7K | Sahgal | 94 |
| US United States | 171 | 1 in 1.9M | 181 | Sahgal | 121 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Sahgal | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 494K | — | Sahgal | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | 43 | Sahgal | 27 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 407K | — | Sahgal | 6 |
| SG Singapore | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Sahgal | 12 |
| EE Estonia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Sahgal | 1 |
7,660 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
- Lakshmi Sahgalb. 1914INofficer in the Indian National Army (INA) and former presidential candidate of India
- Nayantara Sahgalb. 1927INIndian writer (born 1927)
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 7.7K | #1,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 181 | #105,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 171 | #104,602 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 155 | #2,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 123 | #127,948 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 43 | #55,819 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #9,585 |
| US United States | wru 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
- How do you pronounce Sahgal?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑɡəɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Sahgal have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Sahgal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sahgal.
- How common is the name Sahgal?
- In India, the national register counted 7,660 people named Sahgal, about 1 in 173 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sahgalThe 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, “Sahgal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.