Sahwal Surname
Approximately 257 people bear this surname
Sahwal Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | 206 | 1:867,203 | 11,961 |
| Indonesia | 29 | 1:4,560,317 | 223,141 |
| India | 13 | 1:59,005,029 | 552,550 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| Egypt | 4 | 1:22,983,938 | 62,368 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1:50,218,684 | 817,899 |
Sahwal (219) may also be a first name.
Sahwal Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Sahwal Come From? nationality or country of origin
Sahwal (Arabic: شول, Hindi: शह्वाल, Marathi: सहवाल) has its highest incidence in Pakistan. It can also be rendered as a variant:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Sahwal? popularity and diffusion
Sahwal is the 996,001st most commonly occurring family name on earth It is held by approximately 1 in 28,356,210 people. This last name is mostly found in Asia, where 98 percent of Sahwal live; 85 percent live in South Asia and 80 percent live in Islamic South Asia. It is also the 609,814th most frequently occurring given name throughout the world, borne by 219 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Pakistan, where it is carried by 206 people, or 1 in 867,203. In Pakistan it is primarily found in: Sindh, where 97 percent live, Punjab, where 3 percent live and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where 0 percent live. Besides Pakistan this last name occurs in 4 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 11 percent live and India, where 5 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Sahwal Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sahwal in the Marathi language | ||
| सहवाल | sahavala | - |
| Sahwal in the Hindi language | ||
| शह्वाल | sahvala | 50 |
| सहवाल | sahavala | 50 |
| Sahwal in the Arabic language | ||
| شول | shwl | - |
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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 Sahwal
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