Real
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Real is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Late Latin reālis, from Latin rēs.
- ESSpain1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 9.8K
- UYUruguay1 in 2.9K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Re'Al in US United States and Re-Al in PH Philippines.
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 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Real 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Re-Al | 49 |
| ES Spain | 11,689 | 1 in 4.3K | 12K | Real | 165 |
| BR Brazil | 10,235 | 1 in 21K | 10K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 6,959 | 1 in 48K | 7K | Re'Al | 279 |
| CO Colombia | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 3 | Real | 80 |
| UY Uruguay | 1,167 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.2K | — | 30 |
| LI Liechtenstein | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | 23 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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)
Real is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kr, to be verified, realized, to be true, real; e.g. mdna
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Galician, royal
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, real (former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, objective, real, pertaining to real and physical objects
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, real (that has physical existence)
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)
- Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarteb. 1853FRFrench painter
- Maria Teresa Vernet i Realb. 1907ESSpanish poet and translator (1907-1974)
- Jack Realb. 1915USAmerican aviation pioneer (1915-2005)
- Manuel Realb. 1924USUnited States federal judge
- Armando Tito Larreab. 1943ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian association football player
- Baltasar Garzónb. 1955ESnot in their usual nameSpanish former judge
- Juan Cruz Realb. 1976ARArgentine soccer coach
- Matthew Realb. 1999USAmerican soccer player
- Real Woodsb. 1999USAmerican wrestler (born 1999)
- Real Siellezactor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 52 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #473 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #473 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 10K | #1,296 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7K | #5,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.4K | #5,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.7K | #5,631 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| LI Liechtenstein | Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames) | 2020 | 23 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Real 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 Real have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Real in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled re-al.
- Where is Real most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Real is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Real?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11,689 people named Real, about 1 in 4.3 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/realThe 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, “Real”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.