MEgaL
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɛɡəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
MEgaL is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 981K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
- USUnited States1 in 3.3M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 981K (inferred from the name graph)
101 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
MEgaL 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 101 | 1 in 3.3M | 120 | MEgaL | 11 |
| ES Spain | 51 | 1 in 981K | 51 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 12 | 1 in 111M | 12 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 6 | 1 in 2M | 6 | MEgaL | 3 |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | 8 | MEgaL | 59 |
101 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling megal. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 101 | #159,712 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 51 | #43,867 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 51 | #43,744 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #50,440 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #110,452 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #146,285 |
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 MEgaL?
- A machine transcription gives /mɛɡəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does MEgaL have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 101 people named MEgaL, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled MEgaL.
- Where is MEgaL most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, MEgaL is densest in Spain — about 1 in 981 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name MEgaL?
- In the United States, the national register counted 101 people named MEgaL in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/megalThe 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, “MEgaL”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.