Ardal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘high valour’; old historic name that later gave way to Arnold
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɾdaɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ardal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 52K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 300K
- NONorway1 in 5.2Kas Aardal
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 Ardal 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
1,042 named Aardal
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Aardal in NO Norway, US United States, GT Guatemala.
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)
‘high valour’; old historic name that later gave way to Arnold.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ardal 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.
1,042 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Ardal 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.
Traditional Irish Gaelic name, composed of the elements ard ‘high’ (or possibly art ‘bear’) + gal ‘valour’. Variant: Ardghal. $
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Irish: Anglicized form of the traditional Gaelic name Ard(gh)al , composed of the elements and high or possibly art bear + gal valour.
as a word
In Welsh, area, district
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 112 | #4,885 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 34 | #17,166 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Ardal mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘high valour’; old historic name that later gave way to Arnold. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Ardal?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾdaɫ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Ardal have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Aardal, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ardal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ardal is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 52 thousand people — even though Norway holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ardal?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 112 people named Ardal, about 1 in 52 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ardal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ardalThe 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, “Ardal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.