Śal

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Śal is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From Middle English sal, from Latin sal. Doublet of salt.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
11 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)
Derivation of Śal: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Śal
  1. Middle Englishsal(measured from records)
  2. Latinsal(measured from records)

From Middle English sal, from Latin sal. Doublet of salt.

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 37 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Śal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Śal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6.8K—11
BR Brazil—990——
AR Argentina—952——
ES Spain—653——
IN India—220—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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Śal is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written სალ, Sal

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Śal under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Śal mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English sal, from Latin sal. Doublet of salt. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and 5 other sources.
Is Śal a male or female name?
Śal is a female 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 Śal have the most bearers?
Śal is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Bal

The 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, “Śal” — ranked 3096th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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