Sawal

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 864K(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 2.1M
  • USUnited States1 in 2.9M

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)

644 people

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 864K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

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 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sawal 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 Sawal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India6441 in 2.1M644Sawal24
US United States1131 in 2.9M152Sawal78
NL Netherlands201 in 864K20Sawal4
PL Poland31 in 13M3—1
PH Philippines———Sawal32
MY Malaysia———Sawal19

644 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

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

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, India, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sawál

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Philippines, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Śąwåĺ

34 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)

Sawal 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 ang, alternative form of sāwol

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tft, the month of Shawwal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mrw, Shawwal

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Sawal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—796#188
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—644#7,607
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020152#120,164
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010113#146,201
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200720#49,833
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—15#13,537
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#287,128
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#193,690
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Sawal have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 644 people named Sawal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sawal.
Where is Sawal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sawal is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 864 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sawal?
In India, the national register counted 644 people named Sawal, about 1 in 2.1 million 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, “Sawal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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