Vakal
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Vakal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: otkos, Schwad(e). Vakal is also written Вакал in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 95Kas Вакал
- RURussia≈1 in 850Kas Вакал
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vakal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 named Вакал, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vakal in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Вакал in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 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
(measured from records)otkos, Schwad(e)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Where the surname Vakal is found
(measured from records)Vakal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Вакал | 20 |
| RU Russia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 851K | — | Вакал | 79 |
| PL Poland | 29 | 1 in 1.3M | 19 | Vakal | 4 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 5M | — | Вакал | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Вакал | 2 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Vakal 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 Serbo-Croatian, otkos, Schwad(e)
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)4 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 Vakal mean, and where does it come from?
- otkos, Schwad(e) Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vakal?
- Mondonomo estimates about 397 people named Вакал in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Poland and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Vakal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vakal is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vakal?
- In Poland, the national register counted 29 people named Vakal in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vakalThe 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, “Vakal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.