Bokal
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Bokal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian boccale.
- SISlovenia1 in 6.7K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 3.8M
- ESSpain1 in 6.3M
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 Bokal 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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
315 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Бокал in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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 Italian boccale.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bokal 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.
315 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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)Bokal is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, a sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lad, bottle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, vowel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »pehar, bardak«
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ljudmila Bokalb. 1952SISlovenian linguist
- Drago Bokalb. 1953SIresearcher
- Drago Bokalb. 1978SISlovenian researcher
- Eda Vrtačnik-BokalSIresearcher
- Barbara Kastelic BokalSIresearcher
- Urška BokalSIresearcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 315 | #1,212 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #193,421 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #191,678 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Bokal mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Italian boccale. Recorded by Wiktionary and Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- In which country does Bokal have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 315 people named Bokal, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bokal most common?
- Bokal is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bokal?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 315 people named Bokal, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bokalThe 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, “Bokal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.