Žalo

surname · Latin script

Meaning: beach, seaside, shore, sea bank

Žalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 421K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia≈1 in 2.3M
  • SESweden1 in 5.1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

13 people

Sources
3 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 421K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

beach, seaside, shore, sea bank

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Žalo 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.

Where Žalo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway131 in 421K13—1
HR Croatia≈2 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Žalo3
SE Sweden21 in 5.1M2——
AL Albania——92——
BR Brazil——20——

13 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Žalo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Czech, neuter singular past active participle of žnout

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Šļirces adata

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Nazis

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Seja

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Žalo under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Žalo mean, and where does it come from?
beach, seaside, shore, sea bank Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Žalo have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 13 people named Žalo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Žalo most common?
Žalo is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 421 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Žalo?
In Norway, the national register counted 13 people named Žalo, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.

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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, “Žalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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