Bañal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bañal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Malay benar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bənər (“true, righteous, honest”). Compare Bikol Central banal, Kapampangan banal, Masbatenyo banal.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- RERéunion≈1 in 5.4K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, 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 Banal in PH Philippines, US United States, ID Indonesia 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)
- Malaybenar(measured from records)
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*bənər“true“true, righteous, honest”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Malay benar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bənər (“true, righteous, honest”). Compare Bikol Central banal, Kapampangan banal, Masbatenyo banal.
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bañal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Banal | 54 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Banal | 9 |
| US United States | — | 209 | 1 in 1.6M | 242 | Banal | 92 |
| FR France | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 364K | 33 | — | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 338K | listed | Banal | 6 |
| RE Réunion | #487 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Banal | 1 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Banal | 12 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Banal | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bañal mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Malay benar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bənər (“true, righteous, honest”). Compare Bikol Central banal, Kapampangan banal, Masbatenyo banal. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Bañal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.7 thousand people named Bañal in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled banal.
- How common is the name Bañal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209 people named Bañal in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Bañal compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Bañal is the 487th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ba%C3%B1alThe 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, “Bañal” — the 487th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.