Çahal
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Çahal is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uzbekistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: An anglicised spelling of Cathal. Cahir [Cathaoir] (m) ‘warrior’. Aname which was once popular in Leinster. Cathair was a variant found in a number of families.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 614K(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Uzbekistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 614K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cahal in PH Philippines.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An anglicised spelling of Cathal. Cahir [Cathaoir] (m) ‘warrior’. Aname which was once popular in Leinster. Cathair was a variant found in a number of families. The name is still used in Ireland today. Cain [Cain] (m) Hebrew, ‘smith’. This name was used to anglicise Cian, though why the name of such an unedifying Biblical character should have been chosen is something of a mystery. The use of this name is not confined to Ireland. Dunkling notes that he has traced six bearers of it.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Çahal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 614K | — | Çahal | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Çahal | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | — | listed | Çahal | 2 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Cahal | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | 166 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Çahal mean, and where does it come from?
- An anglicised spelling of Cathal. Cahir [Cathaoir] (m) ‘warrior’. Aname which was once popular in Leinster. Cathair was a variant found in a number of families. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Çahal a male or female name?
- Çahal is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Çahal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 people named Çahal in Uzbekistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled çahal.
- How common is the name Çahal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 people in Uzbekistan have Çahal as their first given name, about 1 in 614 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7ahalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Çahal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.