Deal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/diːl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Deal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 16K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 22K
- CACanada≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
20,366 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Deal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 20,366 | 1 in 16K | 20K | Deal | 425 |
| GH Ghana | #487 | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Deal | 11 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Deal | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Deal | 133 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Deal | 88 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Deal | 8 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Deal | 3 |
20,366 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Deal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Deal (Kent) or from residence in a valley (OE dæl); first attested Roger de le Dele, John Dele 1275 RH (Nf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Polish, deal (transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, deal (often implying a dubious nature)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, deal, a transaction or arrangement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, a deal: a transaction
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)
- Nathan Dealb. 1942US82nd governor of Georgia from 2011 to 2019
- Sandra Dealb. 1942USAmerican education advocate and teacher (1942–2022)
- Mick Marsb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican guitarist
- Frank Dealb. 1958USAmerican actor
- Kim Dealb. 1961USAmerican singer-songwriter; alternative rock musician
- Lance Dealb. 1961USAmerican hammer thrower
- Kelley Dealb. 1961USAmerican musician
- Cody Dealb. 1986USAmerican actor
- Carl Dealb. 2000USAmerican film director
- Tim Dealactor
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,760 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 20K | #1,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 20K | #1,785 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Deal mean, and where does it come from?
- A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Deal?
- A machine transcription gives /diːl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Deal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Deal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled deal.
- How common is the name Deal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,366 people named Deal in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Deal compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Deal is the 487th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dealThe 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, “Deal” — the 487th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.