Hvål

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Hvål is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: »1° laus, 2° merci«; pohvala, hvala.

  • NONorway1 in 8.5K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 729K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M

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.

Norway (measured from records)

642 people

Record sources
13 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hval in NO Norway, US United States.

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)

»1° laus, 2° merci«; pohvala, hvala

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Hvål is found

(measured from records)

Hvål 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 Hvål is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway6421 in 8.5K642Hval13
SE Sweden141 in 729K14—2
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——
US United States——listedHval5

642 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Hvål is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, United Kingdom, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Hval, Hvaal

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Norway, Philippines

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Hval

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hvål mean, and where does it come from?
»1° laus, 2° merci«; pohvala, hvala Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Hvål?
In Norway, the national register counted about 642 people named Hvål, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hval. After it come Sweden and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Hvål most common?
Hvål is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hvål?
In Norway, the national register counted 642 people named Hvål, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.

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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, “Hvål”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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