Naturel
org · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from Middle English naturel ‘natural’ (Old French natural)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Naturel is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 135 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname from Middle English naturel ‘natural’ (Old French natural). The sense when used as a surname is uncertain. Possibly the reference is to an illegitimate son.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Naturel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 69 | Naturel | 135 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Naturel | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1 | — | — |
| CL Chile | — | 1 | — | — |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Naturel 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.
In Czech, nature, temperament
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, naturally
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Dabisks, vienkāršs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Georges Naturelb. 1955FRNew Caledonian politician
- Gilles Naturelb. 1960FRFrench bassist
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 78 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 71 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 69 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 45 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Naturel come from?
- nickname from Middle English naturel ‘natural’ (Old French natural). The sense when used as a surname is uncertain. Possibly the reference is to an illegitimate son. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- What does the name Naturel mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname from Middle English naturel ‘natural’ (Old French natural).
- In which country does Naturel have the most bearers?
- Naturel is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled naturel.
What do you want to know about Naturel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naturelThe 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, “Naturel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.