Naël
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Naël is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 23K
- JOJordan≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nael in FR France, ES Spain, SY Syria and 5 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naël 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #690 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 20K | Nael | 207 |
| JO Jordan | #812 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Nael | 58 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,524 | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Nael | 10 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Nael | 62 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Nael | 43 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Nael | 25 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Nael | 50 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Nael | 31 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nail Hanonb. 1952IQnot in their usual nameIraqi archaeologist
- Naël Marandinb. 1981FRFrench actor
- Neil El Aynaouib. 2001FRnot in their usual nameMorrocan footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 20K | #30 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Is Naël a male or female name?
- Naël 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.
- In which country does Naël have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Naël in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nael.
- How common is the name Naël?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,524 people named Naël, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Naël compared with other names?
- In France, Naël is the 690th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Naël?
- In the etymology graph, Nate is a form of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Naël?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/na%C3%ABlThe 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, “Naël” — the 690th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.