Chazal
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʃazal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chazal is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew חז״ל (khazál), which is an acronym for חכמינו זיכרונם לברכה (khakhaméinu zikhronám livrakhá, “our sages, of blessed memory”).
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is 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)From Hebrew חז״ל (khazál), which is an acronym for חכמינו זיכרונם לברכה (khakhaméinu zikhronám livrakhá, “our sages, of blessed memory”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chazal 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 311 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 12 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 10 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)Chazal 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 English, The sages from the time of the Second Temple and afterward, through the sixth century C.E.
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jean-Pierre Chazalb. 1766FRFrench politician (1766-1840)
- Antoine Toussaint de Chazalb. 1793FRFrench painter and engraver (1793-1854)
- André Chazalb. 1796FR(1796-1860)
- Camille Chazalb. 1825FRFrench painter (1825-1875)
- Robert Chazalb. 1912FRFrench film critique (1912–2002)
- Claire Chazalb. 1956FRFrench journalist
- Elena Chazalb. 1960ESSpanish writer
- Frederic Chazalb. 1971FRPh.D. Université de Bourgogne 1997
- Thomas Chazalb. 1982FRFrench politician
- Maxime Chazalb. 1993FRFrench tennis player
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 432 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 420 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 401 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 382 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 366 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 354 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 341 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 338 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 311 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 273 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 224 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Chazal mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hebrew חז״ל (khazál), which is an acronym for חכמינו זיכרונם לברכה (khakhaméinu zikhronám livrakhá, “our sages, of blessed memory”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Chazal?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃazal/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Chazal have the most bearers?
- Chazal is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Chazal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chazalThe 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, “Chazal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.