Gál
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
/ˈɡaːl/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Gál is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Shortened from Gálos (“the old Hungarian form of Gallusz”), from Latin Gallus.
- HUHungary≈1 in 660(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia1 in 2.7K
- RORomania≈1 in 4.9K
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.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 663 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, 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 Gal in RO Romania, IL Israel.
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)Shortened from Gálos (“the old Hungarian form of Gallusz”), from Latin Gallus.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gál 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.
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hans Gálb. 1890ATAustrian composer, musicologist and pianist
- Irén Gálb. 1890HUpiano teacher, communist politician Béla Kun's wife
- Magda Gálb. 1907HUHungarian table tennis player (1907–1990)
- Péter Molnár Gálb. 1936HUHungarian journalist (1936–2011)
- Zoltán Gálb. 1940HUHungarian politician
- Henrik Gálb. 1947HUOlympic wrestler
- Kinga Gálb. 1970HUmember of the European Parliament
- Andreas Galb. 1976HUfree software developer
- Gyula Gálb. 1976HUHungarian handball player
- Minya Csaba Galb. 1985RORomanian rugby union player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Gál?
- In the etymology graph, Gallo, Gall and Gallus are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Gál mean, and where does it come from?
- Shortened from Gálos (“the old Hungarian form of Gallusz”), from Latin Gallus. Recorded by Wiktionary and Családnevek enciklopédiája.
- How do you pronounce Gál?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /ˈɡaːl/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ɡˈaːl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Gál have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Gál in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gál.
- How common is the name Gál?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 1,987 people named Gál in 1995, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Gál compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Gál is the 25th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gál?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%A1lThe 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, “Gál” — the 25th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.