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    The surname Handal

    An Arabic place surname, carried by 607 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H534

    Handal: #36,788 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Handal #36,788, 607 people Handal: #36,788 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Handal #36,788, 607 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Handal is more common than 77.3% of them.

    Origin

    Arabic origin

    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Arabic حَنْضَل (ḥanḍal, “colocynth”), a dialectal merger of حَنْظَل (ḥanẓal, “colocynth”). This surname is particularly found in Honduras. * Borrowed from Norwegian Handal, a habitational surname from any of several farmsteads in Norway.

    Handal is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 179 Arabic surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 607 people named Handal in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 508,642 Americans. That is up 31% since 2000, when the Census counted 464.

    #36,788
    rank among US surnames
    607
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +30.8%
    change since 2000 (was #43,798)

    Who is named Handal

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    50% of people named Handal identified as white (not Hispanic), 48% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 50%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 48%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Handals

    1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Nathalie Handal
      American writer, born 1969

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Handal

    Handal has the Soundex code H534, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H534.

    Other Arabic surnames

    All 179 Arabic surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Handal come from?
    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Arabic حَنْضَل (ḥanḍal, “colocynth”), a dialectal merger of حَنْظَل (ḥanẓal, “colocynth”). This surname is particularly found in Honduras. * Borrowed from Norwegian Handal, a habitational surname from any of several farmsteads in Norway.
    How common is the surname Handal?
    607 people in the United States had the surname Handal in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 508,642 Americans. It ranked 36,788th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Handal?
    In the 2010 Census, 50% of people named Handal identified as white (not Hispanic), and 48% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Handal?
    Nathalie Handal, American writer.
    Where is the surname Handal most common?
    Wikidata records people named Handal in the United States.
    What type of surname is Handal?
    Handal is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Handal getting more or less common?
    More common. 464 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 607 in 2010, up 31%.