Pokhrel Surname

9,460th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 59,792 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nepal
Highest density in:
Nepal

Pokhrel Surname User-submission:

The Pokharel surname originates from 'Pokhar village' in Western Nepal.

Pokhrel Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nepal54,0731:527108
India3,2881:233,29213,645
Qatar4491:5,252550
United Arab Emirates4021:22,7922,600
Bhutan3971:1,552135
United States3311:1,095,04279,381
Saudi Arabia1991:155,05422,057
Kuwait1161:32,7654,071
Malaysia1131:261,01114,629
Australia751:359,94330,133
Bahrain591:22,8584,582
Thailand451:1,569,741208,465
England361:1,547,72466,012
Canada351:1,052,73178,176
Denmark261:217,10417,438
Myanmar251:2,077,519669
Germany241:3,354,394150,996
New Zealand161:283,02024,643
Belgium101:1,149,66482,403
Netherlands71:2,412,45494,797
Japan71:18,263,47047,869
South Korea61:8,540,0431,433
Norway61:857,04855,549
China51:273,464,31313,838
Finland51:1,099,34045,512
Iceland41:95,0224,787
Macau41:150,408604
Sweden31:3,282,252190,759
Israel21:4,278,817136,311
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Scotland21:2,676,90851,579
Russia21:72,061,528727,117
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Austria11:8,515,435118,036
Ukraine11:45,522,696503,646
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
Bangladesh11:159,356,77326,077
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Jamaica11:2,869,94713,896
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Cambodia11:15,487,14614,824
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Oman11:3,687,97114,390
France11:66,422,722504,397
Cyprus11:884,87613,055

Pokhrel (22) may also be a first name.

Pokhrel Surname Meaning

User-submitted Reference

The Pokharel surname originates from 'Pokhar village' in Western Nepal.

- santoshthapa

Pokhrel Last Name Facts

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

The last name Pokhrel (Hindi: पोखरेल, Marathi: पोखरेल, Oriya: େପାଖେରଲ, Russian: Похрел, Tibetan: པོག་རེལ།) occurs in Nepal more than any other country/territory. It can also occur as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Pokhrel? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 9,460th most frequent last name internationally, borne by approximately 1 in 121,882 people. The last name Pokhrel occurs mostly in Asia, where 99 percent of Pokhrel live; 97 percent live in South Asia and 96 percent live in Indo-South Asia. Pokhrel is also the 2,301,746th most frequent first name worldwide, held by 22 people.

It is most commonly used in Nepal, where it is carried by 54,073 people, or 1 in 527. In Nepal Pokhrel is most prevalent in: Lumbini, where 26 percent reside, Rapti, where 17 percent reside and Koshi, where 14 percent reside. Excluding Nepal it is found in 49 countries. It also occurs in India, where 5 percent reside and Qatar, where 1 percent reside.

Pokhrel Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Pokhrel last name are 19.9% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 66.67% registered with the political party.

The amount Pokhrel earn in different countries varies notably. In United States they earn 12.61% less than the national average, earning $37,706 USD per year and in Canada they earn 9.72% more than the national average, earning $54,513 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Pokhrrel9310/
Poukhrel9310/
Pokkhrel937/
Pokhrell931/
Pokhrehl931/
Pokhhrel931/
Pohkhrel931/
Pokrel92526/
Pokhrl922/
Pakhrel86125/
Pukhrel8666/
Phokrel8638/
Pokhril864/
Pookrel861/
Pekhrel861/
Pokkrel861/
Pokcrel861/
Pohkrel861/
Paukhrel8084/
Pockrell801/
Phokrell801/
Pakrel7769/
Pukrel7734/
Pokril774/
Pekrel772/
Paukhrrel751/
Pakırel7175/
Pekruel716/
Pakhril712/
Peekrell670/
Phakrl621/
Pucrell572/
Pekrill571/
Pascrell5338/
Peckrill536/
Pasqurell5022/

Pokhrel Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pokhrel in the Oriya language
େପାଖେରଲepakherala-
Pokhrel in the Marathi language
पोखरेलpokharela88.89
पोरखेलporakhela11.11
Pokhrel in the Hindi language
पोखरेलpokharela86.67
पोख्रेलpokhrela11.11
पोखरलpokharala2.22
Pokhrel in the Tibetan language
པོག་རེལ།pokrel82.35
པོག་རལ།pokral7.84
པོགས་རལ།pokral2.94
པོག་རིལ།pokril0.98
པོཀ་རེལ།pokarel0.49
ཤར་མ།sharma0.49
པོ་རལ།poral0.49
ཕོག་རེལ།pokrel0.49
པོག་རེལ་།pokrel0.49
པའོ་དྲེལ།paodrel0.49
པོཁ་རེལ།pokharel0.49
ཕོག་རལ།pokral0.49
པོག་རེ་ལེ།pokrélé0.49
པོཁ་རེལpokharel0.49
པོངག་རེལ།pongakrel0.49
པོག་རུལ།pokrul0.49
Pokhrel in the Russian language
Похрелpohrel-

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