Gual
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ford (a location where a stream is shallow)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/gwal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gual is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 19K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 165K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 28K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
2,644 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ford (a location where a stream is shallow)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gual 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,644 | 1 in 19K | 2.6K | Gual | 119 |
| AR Argentina | — | 275 | 1 in 165K | 275 | Gual | 35 |
| IN India | — | 272 | 1 in 4.9M | 272 | Gual | 3 |
| US United States | — | 231 | 1 in 1.4M | 231 | Gual | 63 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 579K | — | Gual | 8 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 172K | — | Gual | 13 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #928 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Gual | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | 3 |
2,644 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Gual is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, to swindle, to kidnap; to seduce | To a staff (#3)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In Scottish Gaelic, coal
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)
- Pedro Gualb. 1783VEPresident of Venezuela
- Francisco S. Carvajalb. 1870MXnot in their usual namePresident of Mexico (1870-1932)
- Adrià Gualb. 1872ESSpanish playwright (1872–1943)
- Jaume Sabartésb. 1881ESnot in their usual nameSpanish artist, poet and writer (1881-1968)
- Salvador Cañellasb. 1944ESnot in their usual nameSpanish motorcycle racer
- Amparo Marcob. 1968ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Roger Gualb. 1973ESSpanish film director
- Pedro Mairata Gualb. 1979ESSpanish footballer
- Anna Gual Rovirosab. 1996ESSpanish water polo player
- Tomeu Rigob. 1997ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1997)
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.6K | #1,921 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.6K | #1,920 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 275 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 272 | #14,333 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 231 | #81,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 201 | #96,965 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 187 | #91,404 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 24 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #10,560 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Gual mean, and where does it come from?
- ford (a location where a stream is shallow) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gual?
- A machine transcription gives /gwal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gual have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Gual, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gual.
- Where is Gual most common?
- Gual is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gual?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,644 people named Gual, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Gual compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Gual is the 928th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gualThe 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, “Gual” — the 928th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.