Önal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Önal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: "Üstün gel, başta ol" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 11K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 33K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Onal in US United States, PH Philippines.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"Üstün gel, başta ol" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
Sources 1
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Önal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #211 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Önal | 88 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Onal | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Önal | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 277K | 56 | Önal | 2 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Önal | 4 |
| US United States | — | 168 | 1 in 2M | 237 | Onal | 91 |
| CY Cyprus | #437 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Önal | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 97 | 1 in 105K | 97 | Önal | 9 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Önal | 2 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Safa Önalb. 1930TRTurkish film director (1930–2023)
- Füsun Önalb. 1947TRTurkish actor and singer (born 1947)
- Erhan Önalb. 1957TRTurkish association football player (1957–2021)
- Sedat Önalb. 1963TRTurkish diplomat (born 1963)
- Tuba Önalb. 1974TRTurkish musician and singer (born 1974)
- Ayşe Hatun Önalb. 1978TRTurkish fashion model and singer (born 1978)
- Funda Önalb. 1984GBModel and dancer
- Güldeniz Önalb. 1986TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1986)
- Bige Önalb. 1990TRTurkish actor and fashion model (born 1990)
- Rümeysa Önalb. 1992TRTurkish animator and director (born 1992)
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #54,222 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname 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 Önal mean?
- Recorded meaning: "Üstün gel, başta ol" anlamında kullanılan bir ad.
- In which country does Önal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Önal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled önal.
- How common is the name Önal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 168 people named Önal in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Önal compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Önal is the 211th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6nalThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Önal” — the 211th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.