Reàl
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Reàl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Late Latin reālis, from Latin rēs.
- USUnited States1 in 566K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 280K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 465K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- 1 in 280K (inferred from the name graph)
588 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Real in US United States, Rêãl in NG Nigeria and Rëål in GH Ghana.
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)
- Late Latinreālis(measured from records)
- Latinrēs(measured from records)
Borrowed from Late Latin reālis, from Latin rēs.
Sources 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Reàl 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 | 588 | 1 in 566K | 7K | Real | 335 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Rêãl | 26 |
| AL Albania | 11 | 1 in 280K | 11 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 11 | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | 8 |
| GH Ghana | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Rëål | 11 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 8 | — | 17 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 465K | 115 | — | 1 |
588 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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 Reàl mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Late Latin reālis, from Latin rēs. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Reàl have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 588 people named Reàl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled real.
- Where is Reàl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Reàl is densest in Albania — about 1 in 280 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Reàl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 588 people named Reàl in 2020, about 1 in 566 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/re%C3%A0lThe 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, “Reàl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.