Hál
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Hál is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 9,875 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: A diminutive lambdacism of Harry (compare Sally from Sarah and Moll from Mary).
- USUnited States1 in 34K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 350K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
9,875 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hal in US United States.
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)A diminutive lambdacism of Harry (compare Sally from Sarah and Moll from Mary).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hál 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 9,875 | 1 in 34K | 9.8K | Hal | 18 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 6 | 1 in 350K | 6 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
9,875 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Hál mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive lambdacism of Harry (compare Sally from Sarah and Moll from Mary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Hál?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Hál, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hal. After it come Sweden, Slovenia, Costa Rica and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hál most common?
- Hál is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 34 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hál?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,875 people named Hál in 2020, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%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, “Hál” — ranked 2488th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.