Fergal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘man of strength’; St Fergal (d (Irish first names)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Fergal is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country: 7 people, counted by the Danmarks Statistik. Fergal is also written Фергал in Cyrillic.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
7 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Fergal in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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)‘man of strength’; St Fergal (d. 784), Irish saint associated with Salzburg, later latinised as Virgil.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Fergal 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.
7 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Fergal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Irish name, from Gaelic fear ‘man’ + gal ‘valor’
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Irish: Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Fearghal, derived from fear ‘man’ + gal ‘valour’. This was the name of an 8th-century king of Ireland, Fearghal mac Maelduin, famous for his murderous exploits.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Origine celtique, « sage et brave ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In English, a man of valour; Irish Gaelic.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Irish: Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Fearghal , composed of the elements fear man + gal valour.
as a word
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)- Fergal O'Brienb. 1972IEIrish snooker player
- Finn Bálorb. 1981IEnot in their usual nameIrish professional wrestler
- Fergal ReillyIEIrish animator, storyboard artist, and film director
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Fergal come from?
- ‘man of strength’; St Fergal (d. 784), Irish saint associated with Salzburg, later latinised as Virgil. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Fergal?
- In the etymology graph, Fearghal is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Fergal a male or female name?
- Fergal 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.
- What does the name Fergal mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘man of strength’; St Fergal (d.
- Which countries have the most people named Fergal?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 7 people named Fergal, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden, Poland and Iceland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fergal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fergal is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though Denmark holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Fergal?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 7 people named Fergal, about 1 in 838 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fergal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fergalThe 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, “Fergal” — ranked 8338th in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.