Keal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Kehl or Kuhl (see Kuhl) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Keal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 466 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 714K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 802K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 714K (inferred from the name graph)
466 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Kehl or Kuhl (see Kuhl).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Keal is found
(measured from records)Keal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 466 | 1 in 714K | 518 | Keal | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 264 | 1 in 802K | 264 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | — | Keal | 5 |
| PA Panama | — | — | — | Keal | 3 |
| CN China | — | — | — | Keal | 2 |
| HN Honduras | — | — | — | Keal | 1 |
| SV El Salvador | — | — | — | Keal | 2 |
466 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Keal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Western Frisian, bald, hairless
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Clifford Kealb. 1901AUAustralian rules footballer (1901-1965)
- Minna Kealb. 1909GBBritish composer (1909-1999)
- Charles Robert Kealb. 1935USearly victim of the COVID-19 pandemic (1935-2020)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Keal mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps an Americanized spelling of German Kehl or Kuhl (see Kuhl). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Keal?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 466 people named Keal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled keal. After it come Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Keal most common?
- Keal is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 714 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Keal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 466 people named Keal in 2010, about 1 in 714 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Keal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kealThe 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, “Keal” — ranked 42134th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.