Mazal
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: dauber, scribbler (bad painter or writer)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mazal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 932K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.5K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 64K
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.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dauber, scribbler (bad painter or writer)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mazal is read(measured from records)
Mazal is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hebrew67%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mazal in Hebrew.
- Czech38%
dauber, scribbler (bad painter or writer)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mazal in Arabic.
- English8.9%
Relating to a maze.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mazal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Mazal | 30 |
| US United States | 357 | 1 in 932K | 350 | Mazal | 119 |
| FR France | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 695K | 26 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Mazal | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Mazal | 1 |
| FI Finland | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 214K | 25 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 691K | — | Mazal | 17 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Mazal is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
luck
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In lad, the star under which one is born
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kab, still
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, honest, of good character, noble
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Adolf Mazalb. 1852CZCzech farmer and local politician (1872-??)
- Otakar Mazalb. 1894CZCzech soccer player and soccer coach (1894-1941)
- Emil Mazalb. 1915AT15.6.1915-3.5.1943
- Otto Mazalb. 1932ATAustrian librarian (1932–2008)
- Raymond Mazalb. 1940FRFrench politician
- Ctibor Mazalb. 1958CZresearcher
- Romana Mazalováb. 1987CZnot in their usual nameCzech psychologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 167 | #111,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 160 | #103,706 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 153 | #114,424 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 53 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 24 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Mazal mean, and where does it come from?
- dauber, scribbler (bad painter or writer) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mazal a male or female name?
- Mazal is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mazal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Mazal in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mazal.
- How common is the name Mazal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 357 people named Mazal in 2020, about 1 in 932 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mazal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mazalThe 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, “Mazal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.