Handal

See also: handal

English

Etymology

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.

Proper noun

Handal (plural Handals)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Handal is the 36788^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 607 individuals. Handal is most common among White (49.59%) and Hispanic/Latino (48.43%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Handal”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124.