Fornal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: farmhand tending the horses (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈfɔr.nal/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Fornal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 3,464 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Fornal is also written Форналь in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 109K
- CZCzechia1 in 465K
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 Fornal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
3,464 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Fornal in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Fornal
- Polish:/ˈfɔr.nal/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/foɾnal/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)farmhand tending the horses
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Fornal is found
(measured from records)Fornal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 3,464 | 1 in 11K | 1.7K | Fornal | 67 |
| PH Philippines | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Fornal | 4 |
| US United States | 398 | 1 in 836K | 422 | Fornal | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 732K | — | Fornal | 22 |
| BR Brazil | 79 | 1 in 2.7M | 79 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 537K | — | Fornal | 3 |
| NO Norway | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | — | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 23 | 1 in 465K | 23 | Fornal | 6 |
3,464 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Fornal 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 Catalan, forge, hearth
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)- Bogdan Fornalb. 1957PLPolish physicist
- Agnieszka Fornal-Urbanb. 1968PLPolish chess player
- Tomasz Fornalb. 1997PLPolish volleyball 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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Fornal mean, and where does it come from?
- farmhand tending the horses Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Fornal?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /ˈfɔr.nal/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /foɾnal/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Fornal?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Fornal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fornal. After it come Philippines, United States, United Kingdom and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Fornal most common?
- Fornal is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Fornal?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,464 people named Fornal in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Fornal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fornalThe 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, “Fornal” — ranked 1576th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.