Pakwal Surname
Approximately 16 people bear this surname
Pakwal Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Bhutan | 2 | 1:308,020 | 1,264 |
| Afghanistan | 1 | 1:32,153,183 | 60,828 |
Pakwal Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Pakwal Come From? nationality or country of origin
Pakwal (Tibetan: པོག་ཝལ།) occurs more in India more than any other country/territory. It may also be found as a variant:. For other potential spellings of Pakwal click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Pakwal? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 4,908,606th most commonly occurring surname at a global level, borne by around 1 in 455,471,620 people. The last name occurs mostly in Asia, where 100 percent of Pakwal live; 100 percent live in South Asia and 81 percent live in Indo-South Asia.
It is most commonly held in India, where it is borne by 13 people, or 1 in 59,005,029. In India Pakwal is primarily concentrated in: Assam, where 77 percent live and West Bengal, where 23 percent live. Beside India this last name exists in 2 countries. It is also common in Bhutan, where 13 percent live and Afghanistan, where 6 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Pakwal Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pakwal in the Tibetan language | ||
| པོག་ཝལ། | pokwal | 50 |
| པག་ལྦལ། | pakbal | 50 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Pakwal
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