Paal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: evtl. zu Paulus, doch konkurrieren andere Deutungen stark (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
Paal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Paal is also written পাল in Bengali and ਪਾਲ in Gurmukhi.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 4.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 60K
- NLNetherlands1 in 123K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Paal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,119,711 named Pal
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Paal in other scripts: Bengali and Gurmukhi
(measured from records)Locally spelled পাল in IN India, BD Bangladesh.
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)evtl. zu Paulus, doch konkurrieren andere Deutungen stark. Bearer count: 244.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Paal is found
(measured from records)Paal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 1,119,711as Pal | 1 in 1.2K | 1.1M | পাল | 40 |
| BD Bangladesh | #202 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | পাল | 9 |
| US United States | — | 3,844as Pal | 1 in 87K | 4K | Paal | 24 |
| PL Poland | — | 802as Pal | 1 in 48K | 443 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 550as Pal | 1 in 91K | 550 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | #406 | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Paal | 27 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 183as Pal | 1 in 11K | 183 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 160as Pal | 1 in 26K | 160 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 141 | 1 in 123K | 141 | Paal | 5 |
1,119,711 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling pal. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Paal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In chl, mortar (for pounding and grinding)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, post, stake, pole, pile
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, post, pole, beam
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lbo, shoulder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yua, child
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Carl Paalb. 1860ATAustrian chemist (1860–1935)
- Günther Paalb. 1962ATAustrian cabaret artist and musician
- Kenneth Paalb. 1997NLSurinamese association football player (born 1997)
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)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Paal mean?
- Recorded meaning: evtl. zu Paulus, doch konkurrieren andere Deutungen stark.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Paal?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Pal, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, United States, Poland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Paal?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 141 people named Paal in 2007, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
- How common is Paal compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Paal is the 202nd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paalThe 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, “Paal” — ranked 24th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.