Äl

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Äl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 42nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Hindi आल (āl).

rarermore common
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 883(inferred from the name graph)
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.4K
  • LYLibya≈1 in 2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Äl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈130,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
540 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 883 (inferred from the name graph)

Saudi Arabia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ÄlLatin(measured from records)
แอลThai(measured from records)
আলBengali(measured from records)
ΑλGreek(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Al in US United States, EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia and 2 more and L. in NL Netherlands, ID Indonesia, PH Philippines.

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)

From Hindi आल (āl).

Cited for this meaning 8

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
  • YorùbáName Dictionary

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Äl 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 Äl is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia#662≈130,000 est.≈1 in 2KlistedL.196
SA Saudi Arabia—≈39,000 est.≈1 in 883listedAl197
EG Egypt—≈27,000 est.≈1 in 3.9K—Al119
PH Philippines—≈20,000 est.≈1 in 5.4K—L.123
US United States#64719,7451 in 17K19KAl540
MD Moldova—11,376as Ala1 in 29611K—14
CZ Czechia—7,568as Bára1 in 1.4K7.6K—2
AE United Arab Emirates#478≈7,100 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Al190
LY Libya—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 2K—Al48
NL Netherlands#4236as Aale1 in 480K222L.86

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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); e-services.md — living population register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Äl is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Vietnamese surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Vietnam, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria

    Also written Al, Ãl, Ãľ, Àl, Âl

  • a separate given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Al, Ål, Āl, Ãl, A̶l̶

  • Czech name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Al, Ál, Aĺ, Áľ, Àl

  • a separate name19 spellings in the group

    Also written Āl, ̉al, A-L, ِal, ́al

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Al, Âl, Āl, Àl, Ãl

14 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Äl is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Finnish, The name of the Latin-script letter L/l.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vo, toward, towards

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In liv, cradle

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Äl mean, and where does it come from?
From Hindi आल (āl). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 6 other sources.
In which country does Äl have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Äl in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled l..
How common is the name Äl?
In the United States, the national register counted 19,745 people named Äl in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Äl compared with other names?
In Indonesia, Äl is the 662nd most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.

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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, “Äl” — the 662nd most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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