Curial
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: curial (all senses)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/kyʀjal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Curial is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- NLNetherlands
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Pertaining to a court; courtly.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Curial is read
(measured from records)Curial is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French67%
curial (all senses)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English14%
Pertaining to a court; courtly.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Curial in Portuguese.
- Spanish5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Curial in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Curial 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 Romanian, CURIÁL, -Ă, curiali, -e, adj. Care aparține aceleiași curii1; referitor la o curie1; de curie1. [Pr.: -ri-al].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Philibert Jean-Baptiste Curialb. 1774FRFrench general (1774-1829)
- Napoléon Joseph Curialb. 1809FRFrench politician (1809–1861)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 29 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #156,028 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 28 | #42,336 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 19 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Curial come from?
- Pertaining to a court; courtly. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Curial?
- A machine transcription gives /kyʀjal/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Curial mean?
- In French, curial (all senses)
- In which country does Curial have the most bearers?
- Curial is most frequently recorded in France.
What do you want to know about Curial?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/curialThe 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, “Curial”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.