Mondale
surname · Latin script
Meaning: anglicized form of Norwegian Mundahl, from Mundal (‘valley of the river Mun’)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ˈmɑnˌdeɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mondale is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 6 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)anglicized form of Norwegian Mundahl, from Mundal (‘valley of the river Mun’)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mondale 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5 | Mondale | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1 | — | — |
| KE Kenya | — | listed | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Mondale is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Walter, US politician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Americanized form of Norwegian Mundahl.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Walter Mondaleb. 1928USVice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 (1928–2021)
- Joan Mondaleb. 1930USSecond Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
- Ted Mondaleb. 1957USAmerican politician (born 1957)
- Eleanor Mondaleb. 1960USAmerican actress, infotainer and radio personality (1960-2011)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Mondale mean, and where does it come from?
- anglicized form of Norwegian Mundahl, from Mundal (‘valley of the river Mun’) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Mondale?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑnˌdeɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mondale have the most bearers?
- Mondale is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled mondale.
What do you want to know about Mondale?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mondaleThe 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, “Mondale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.