Wäil

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Wäil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: coming back for shelter.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 97K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 102K
  • SESweden1 in 110K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

488 people

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

coming back for shelter

Sources 2

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wäil 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.

Where Wäil is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain4881 in 102K488——
US United States2471 in 1.3M247—3
NL Netherlands1781 in 97K178—1
SE Sweden931 in 110K93——
DK Denmark311 in 189K31——
IS Iceland11 in 351K1——

488 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wäil is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic given name108 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Algeria, Morocco

    Languages: Arabic, French, English

    Also written Wail, Waïl, Wa'Il, Wàil, Wa-Il

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Wäil under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Wäil mean, and where does it come from?
coming back for shelter Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names and Nordic Names.
Is Wäil a male or female name?
Wäil is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Wäil have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 488 people named Wäil, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Wäil most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wäil is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 97 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wäil?
In Spain, the national register counted 488 people named Wäil, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.

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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, “Wäil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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