Kokal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname or topographic name from kokalj ‘com coclde’ (also kokolj, old spellings kokal and kokol) (the plant Agrostemma githago), a weed of cereal crops
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/koʊkɑl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kokal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 111K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 248K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname or topographic name from kokalj ‘com coclde’ (also kokolj, old spellings kokal and kokol) (the plant Agrostemma githago), a weed of cereal crops. Compare Konkol.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kokal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 703K | 1 | Kokal | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Kokal | 2 |
| US United States | 307 | 1 in 1.1M | 312 | Kokal | 132 |
| DE Germany | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Kokal | 29 |
| PH Philippines | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Kokal | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 437K | — | Kokal | 9 |
| SI Slovenia | 19 | 1 in 111K | 19 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Kokal | 1 |
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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Emily Kokalb. 1980USAmerican singer and musician
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 312 | #68,029 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 307 | #64,721 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 294 | #63,450 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 19 | #13,947 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #85,862 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Kokal come from?
- nickname or topographic name from kokalj ‘com coclde’ (also kokolj, old spellings kokal and kokol) (the plant Agrostemma githago), a weed of cereal crops. Compare Konkol. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kokal?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊkɑl/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kokal mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname or topographic name from kokalj ‘com coclde’ (also kokolj, old spellings kokal and kokol) (the plant Agrostemma githago), a weed of cereal crops.
- In which country does Kokal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Kokal in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kokal.
- Where is Kokal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kokal is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 111 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kokal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 307 people named Kokal in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kokalThe 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, “Kokal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.