حل

surname · Arabic script

Meaning, in Arabic: to unfasten; to untie; to unknot; to unravel; to disentangle; to loosen

حل is a surname written in the Arabic script, with more bearers in Yemen than in any other country.

  • EGEgypt≈1 in 560Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • YEYemen≈1 in 85Kfew records
  • LYLibya≈1 in 180Kfew records

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.

Yemen (inferred from the name graph)

≈480 people, est.

Record sources
9 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)

Yemen, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

to unfasten; to untie; to unknot; to unravel; to disentangle; to loosen

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

How حل is read

(measured from records)

حل is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Arabic76%

    to unfasten; to untie; to unknot; to unravel; to disentangle; to loosen

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

    solution

    as a wordrecorded as arykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Persian19%

    solving; resolution

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

حل 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 حل is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
YE Yemen≈480 est.≈1 in 85Kحل3
EG Egypt≈210 est.≈1 in 564Kحل9
SA Saudi Arabia≈54 est.≈1 in 657Kحل4
DZ Algeria≈49 est.≈1 in 953Kحل3
IR Iran≈43 est.≈1 in 2.1Mحل8
LY Libya≈41 est.≈1 in 181Kحل1
KW Kuwait≈19 est.≈1 in 259Kحل2

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.

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)

حل is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ota, untangling, unravelling, unfolding, unknotting

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

  • In Urdu, solution, resolution

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

  • In apc, to solve, to resolve

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

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 حل 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 حل mean, and where does it come from?
to unfasten; to untie; to unknot; to unravel; to disentangle; to loosen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does حل have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 479 people named حل in Yemen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled حل.
How common is the name حل?
Mondonomo estimates about 480 people in Yemen have حل as their first surname, about 1 in 85 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “حل”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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