Zal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zˈaɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 126K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 21K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 208K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Zal | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Zal | 20 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Zal | 3 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 6 | Zal | 10 |
| EG Egypt | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Zal | 7 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Zal | 6 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 331K | — | Zal | 2 |
| PL Poland | 23 | 1 in 1.7M | 14 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Zal 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 Kurdish, White-haired sage, a mythological hero representing superior strength and experience
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Dutch, first/second/third-person singular present indicative of zullen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Zauzou.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, obsolete form of zao
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-jdt, shall
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, hall
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)
- Franck Zalb. 1966FRFrench marine biologist
- Roxana Zalb. 1969USAmerican actress
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 6 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Zal?
- A machine transcription gives /zˈaɫ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Zal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Zal in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zal.
- How common is the name Zal?
- In Poland, the national register counted 23 people named Zal in 2026, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zal?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zalThe 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, “Zal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.