Tál
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tál is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hebrew טל (tal, “dew”).
- PLPoland1 in 56K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 131K
- USUnited States1 in 138K
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
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
2,408 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)Borrowed from Hebrew טל (tal, “dew”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Welsh Surnames
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tál 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.
2,408 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names. 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)Tál is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, dish
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Hungarian, dish, bowl (a vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, masculine singular past active participle of tát
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, deception, deceptive allurement, seduction
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rhg, plate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, adze
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tál mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hebrew טל (tal, “dew”). Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and Welsh Surnames and 5 other sources.
- Is Tál a male or female name?
- Tál is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Tál have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Tál, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tál most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tál is densest in Poland — about 1 in 56 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tál?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,408 people named Tál in 2020, about 1 in 138 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%A1lThe 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, “Tál”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.