Šale
surname · Latin script
Meaning: vocative singular of šal
Šale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 55K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 56K
- USUnited States1 in 93K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šale itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
3,591 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sale in US United States, IN India and Сеил in KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
vocative singular of šal
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šale 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,591 | 1 in 93K | 3.6K | Sale | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 1,295 | 1 in 163K | 1.3K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 831 | 1 in 55K | 831 | — | — |
| IN India | 471 | 1 in 2.8M | 471 | Sale | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 239as Salle | 1 in 14K | 239 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 199as Сейл | 1 in 96K | 199 | Сеил | 3 |
| HR Croatia | 75 | 1 in 56K | 75 | Šale | 12 |
3,591 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence. 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)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 75 | #9,964 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 65 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šale mean, and where does it come from?
- vocative singular of šal Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Šale have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Šale, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sale.
- Where is Šale most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šale is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 55 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Šale?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,591 people named Šale in 2010, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1aleThe 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, “Šale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.