Jales

surname · Latin script

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

/ʒaʎis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 72K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 669K

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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,500 people, est.

Sources
82 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Korean

브라질 상파울루(São Paulo) 주의 도시.

Sources 1

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jales 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 Jales is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil≈3,500 est.≈1 in 61K1.7KJales82
PH Philippines≈160 est.≈1 in 669K—Jales4
PT Portugal≈140 est.≈1 in 72K—Jales23
FR France≈88 est.≈1 in 770K11—2
ES Spain341 in 1.5M34Jales12

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: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Jales is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ja'Les

33 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalPrezado Sr. Jales,Dear Mr Jales, (English)
InformalOlá Jales,Hi Jales, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Jales
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6.7K#1,796
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—34#58,154
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—34#57,670
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199111—

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

How do you pronounce Jales?
A machine transcription gives /ʒaʎis/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Jales have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Jales in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jales.
How common is the name Jales?
In Spain, the national register counted 34 people named Jales, about 1 in 1.5 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, “Jales”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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