Kvāle
surname · Latin script
Kvāle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Kvale, from the dative singular of Old Norse hvdll ‘knoll’.
- NONorway1 in 5.3K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
- USUnited States1 in 887K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,024 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kvale 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)habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Kvale, from the dative singular of Old Norse hvdll ‘knoll’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kvāle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,024 | 1 in 5.3K | 1K | — | — |
| US United States | 375 | 1 in 887K | 412 | Kvale | 7 |
| LV Latvia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Kvāle | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | — |
1,024 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kvāle mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads named Kvale, from the dative singular of Old Norse hvdll ‘knoll’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kvāle have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Kvāle, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kvāle most common?
- Kvāle is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kvāle?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,024 people named Kvāle, about 1 in 5.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kv%C4%81leThe 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, “Kvāle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.