Pokwal Surname

1,441,361st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 149 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bhutan
Highest density in:
Bhutan

Pokwal Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

DNA test information

Pokwal Surname Distribution Map

By incidenceBy frequencyBy rank
Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ARank (high to low)Rank (low to high)
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bhutan1421:4,338251
India51:153,413,076951,030
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795

Pokwal Last Name Facts

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

The last name Pokwal (Tibetan: པོག་ཝལ།) occurs more in Bhutan more than any other country or territory. It can also appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.

How Common Is The Last Name Pokwal? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 1,441,361st most widely held last name world-wide. It is borne by around 1 in 48,909,704 people. The surname is predominantly found in Asia, where 99 percent of Pokwal live; 99 percent live in South Asia and 95 percent live in Tibeto-South Asia.

This surname is most widely held in Bhutan, where it is borne by 142 people, or 1 in 4,338. In Bhutan Pokwal is most frequent in: Tsirang District, where 49 percent reside, Sarpang District, where 32 percent reside and Samdrup Jongkhar District, where 19 percent reside. Besides Bhutan Pokwal exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in India, where 3 percent reside and The United States, where 1 percent reside.

Phonetically Similar Names

Incidence (high to low)Incidence (low to high)Alphabetic A-ZAlphabetic Z-ASimilarity (high to low)Similarity (low to high)Prevalent jurisdiction A-ZPrevalent jurisdiction Z-A
SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Ponkwal923/
Pokhwal921/
Pakwal8316/
Pokwol833/
Pankwal7715/
Pongwal771/
Pegwal6733/
Pagwal674/
Pogual672/
Paqwal671/

Pokwal Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Pokwal in the Tibetan language
པོག་ཝལ།pokwal87.76
པོག་ལྦལ།pokbal9.18
པོཀ་ཝལ།pokawal1.02
པོ་ལྦ།poba1.02
མོག་ཝལ།mokwal1.02

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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
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • 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 Pokwal
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