Nalé
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: RENAPER, 1997
Nalé is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A corrupt form arising from the older "at þen ale".
- USUnited States1 in 174K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 586K
- ARArgentina1 in 659K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 174K (inferred from the name graph)
1,912 people, 2010
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 Nale in US United States, AR Argentina, BR Brazil and 2 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)A corrupt form arising from the older "at þen ale".
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nalé 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.
1,912 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Nalé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In btx, dry meat on a spit over the fire
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1997 | 2 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nalé mean, and where does it come from?
- A corrupt form arising from the older "at þen ale". Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Nalé a male or female name?
- Nalé is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nalé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Nalé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nale.
- Where is Nalé most common?
- Nalé is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 174 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nalé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,912 people named Nalé in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nal%C3%A9The 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, “Nalé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.