Sohal
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sohal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 24Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 37Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 46K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
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 the surname Sohal is found
(measured from records)Sohal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #683 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Sohal | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 2.1K | Sohal | 149 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Sohal | 14 |
| US United States | — | 746 | 1 in 446K | 1K | Sohal | 195 |
| IN India | — | 652 | 1 in 2M | 652 | Sohal | 106 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Sohal | 25 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Sohal | 5 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Sohal | 2 |
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)- Harry Sohalb. 1946CACanadian politician from Alberta (1946-1994)
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sohal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Sohal in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sohal. After it come United Kingdom, Pakistan, United States and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sohal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 746 people named Sohal in 2010, about 1 in 446 thousand residents.
- How common is Sohal compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Sohal is the 683rd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sohal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sohalThe 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, “Sohal” — the 683rd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.