Kål
given name · Latin script
Kål is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India. Recorded meaning: wild, savage, mad.
- INIndia
- LULuxembourg
- SISlovenia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kal in IN India, US United States, SI Slovenia and 2 more and Käl in LU Luxembourg.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
wild, savage, mad
Sources 5
- Russian Names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kål counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 612 | Kal | 5 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | — | Käl | 1 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | — | Kal | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 34 | Kal | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | — | Kal | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1.2K | Kal | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 194 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 135 | — | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kål mean, and where does it come from?
- wild, savage, mad Recorded by Russian Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Kål a male or female name?
- Kål is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kål have the most bearers?
- Kål is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kal.
What do you want to know about Kål?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A5lThe 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, “Kål”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.