Adál

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Adál is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From ad (“name”) + al (“take”). It means "take name", used by Ancient Turks for children before a child performs a brave action and took a name according to that action.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 742K(measured from records)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 19K
  • LYLibya≈1 in 40K

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.

Algeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,300 people, est.

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

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:

Locally spelled Adal in US United States, EG Egypt, DZ Algeria and 4 more.

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)

From ad (“name”) + al (“take”). It means "take name", used by Ancient Turks for children before a child performs a brave action and took a name according to that action.

Sources 3

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Adál 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 Adál is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DZ Algeria≈2,300 est.≈1 in 19K—Adal7
PK Pakistan≈1,900 est.≈1 in 124K—Adal16
EG Egypt≈520 est.≈1 in 199K—Adal20
US United States4481 in 742K413Adal97
SA Saudi Arabia≈210 est.≈1 in 165K—Adal24
LY Libya≈170 est.≈1 in 40K—Adal4
GT Guatemala≈110 est.≈1 in 155K—Adal8

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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Adál is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Adal, Ådal

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Adál 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 Adál mean, and where does it come from?
From ad (“name”) + al (“take”). It means "take name", used by Ancient Turks for children before a child performs a brave action and took a name according to that action. Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Adál a male or female name?
Adál is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Adál have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Adál in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adal.
How common is the name Adál?
In the United States, the national register counted 448 people named Adál in 2020, about 1 in 742 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, “Adál”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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