Ganal

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ganal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 7.1M
  • PLPoland1 in 13M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

283 people, 2010

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ganal 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.

Where Ganal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2831 in 1.2M294Ganal37
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7Ganal6
PL Poland31 in 13M3—1
PH Philippines———Ganal24
FR France———Ganal8
BR Brazil———Ganal9

283 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ganal is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Ğānăļ

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Gãnal

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Ganal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020294#71,480
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010283#69,392
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000189#90,652
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#261,102
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Ganal have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 283 people named Ganal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ganal.
Where is Ganal most common?
Ganal is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Ganal?
In the United States, the national register counted 283 people named Ganal in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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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, “Ganal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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