Chawla

Chawla is the 10,300th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,975 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 100,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,975
Rank: 10,300th
How common: 1 in 100,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Punjabi

Borrowed from Punjabi ਚਾਵਲਾ.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Chawla described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 89.7%
White, not Hispanic 5.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Hispanic or Latino 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Chawla

Kalpana Chawla (1962–2003)American astronaut
Juhi Chawla (born 1967)Indian actress
Bhumika Chawla (born 1978)Indian actress
Surveen Chawla (born 1984)Indian actress
Piyush Chawla (born 1988)Indian cricketer

People named Chawla with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Chawla

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.