Katwal Surname

75,181st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 6,532 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nepal
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Katwal Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Katwal Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nepal3,5831:7,949591
India1,4941:513,43125,709
DR Congo7181:102,89611,465
Bhutan2661:2,316169
Saudi Arabia1591:194,06229,524
Qatar1001:23,5802,513
United Arab Emirates721:127,25410,508
United States451:8,054,643356,745
Malaysia301:983,14144,226
Nigeria251:7,085,710162,099
Afghanistan121:2,679,43217,028
Thailand61:11,773,058553,295
England41:13,929,515290,718
Finland31:1,832,23457,803
Canada31:12,281,864364,614
Australia21:13,497,850222,987
Macau11:601,6301,582
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Pakistan11:178,643,885213,220
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Russia11:144,123,056881,408
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
South Africa11:54,177,704343,732
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

Katwal (46) may also be a first name.

Katwal Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Katwal Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Katwal (Hindi: कटवाल, Marathi: कटवाल, Oriya: କଟୁଆଳ, Tibetan: ཀད་ཝལ།) occurs most in Nepal. It can occur as:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Katwal? popularity and diffusion

It is the 75,181st most common surname world-wide, held by approximately 1 in 1,115,668 people. This last name occurs predominantly in Asia, where 88 percent of Katwal are found; 82 percent are found in South Asia and 78 percent are found in Indo-South Asia. Katwal is also the 1,484,914th most common first name internationally It is held by 46 people.

The surname is most widely held in Nepal, where it is carried by 3,583 people, or 1 in 7,949. In Nepal Katwal is primarily found in: Sagarmatha, where 62 percent live, Koshi, where 28 percent live and Mechi, where 3 percent live. Apart from Nepal this surname exists in 25 countries. It is also found in India, where 23 percent live and The DR Congo, where 11 percent live.

Katwal Last Name Statistics demography

Katwal earn notably less less than the average income. In United States they earn 24.74% less than the national average, earning $32,476 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Katwale922,474/
Khatwal92101/
Kathwal9240/
Katwaal9231/
Katwall9215/
Kastwal926/
Kaithwal8623/
Kashtwal863/
Khaitwal863/
Kathwale862/
Kaitwale861/
Kotwal8323,559/
Katual832,618/
Kadwal8368/
Catwal8310/
Katwol831/
Ketwal831/
Kothwal77463/
Khetwal77438/
Khadwal77138/
Kotwale7765/
Khatual7756/
Kotwall7744/
Kotwaal7732/
Kadwale777/
Kathual776/
Khotwal776/
Kaidwal774/
Kottwal773/
Koutwal772/
Kotwail771/
Katuale771/
Kootwal771/
Kethwal771/
Kothwale7134/
Khostwal7121/
Castwall7118/
Kothwall713/
Kostwald712/
Keethwal712/
Kothwaal711/
Khadhwal711/
Keatwole710/
Cotwal67287/
Kotual6766/
Kadval6734/
Catual6726/
Kodwal679/
Kedwal678/
Kadual676/
Koitewale674/
Koytewale673/
Khothwale672/
Kotwol671/
Ketwol671/

Katwal Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Katwal in the Hindi language
कटवालkatavala93.33
कट्वालkatvala6.67
Katwal in the Oriya language
କଟୁଆଳkatu'ala50
କଟୁୱାଳkatuwala50
Katwal in the Marathi language
कटवालkatavala50
काटवळkatavala12.5
कतवालkatavala12.5
िशतलisatala12.5
कातवलkatavala12.5
Katwal in the Tibetan language
ཀད་ཝལ།kéwal39.25
ཀཱཀྲ་ཝལ།katrawal20.56
ཀཱཏ་ཝཱལ།katawal14.02
ཀྲད་ཝལ།tréwal12.15
ཀདྲ་ཝལ།kadrawal3.74
ཀཀྲ་ཝལ།katrawal1.87
ཀཏ་ཝལ།katawal1.87
ཀན་ཝལ།kenwal1.87
ཀྱད་ཝལ།kyéwal0.93
ཀྲལ་བལ།tralbal0.93
ཀཱ་ཀྲུ་ཝལ།katruwal0.93
ཀཀྲ་ཝཱལ།katrawal0.93
ཀྲ་ད་ཝལ།tradawal0.93

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Footnotes

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  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Katwal
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