Pal

At the 2020 census, 4,019 Americans bore the surname Pal — 7,921st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 74,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,019
Rank: 7,921st
How common: 1 in 74,400
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 73.1%
White, not Hispanic 18.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Pal

Bachendri Pal (born 1954)Indian mountaineer
George Pal (1908–1980)Hungarian-American film director
Pau Echaniz Pal (born 2001)Spanish kayaker
Yash Pal (1926–2017)Indian physicist

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

Surnames like Pal

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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.