Nadal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Christmas day, Nativity day
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nadal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nadal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 14K
- FRFrance≈1 in 21K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 241 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
8,725 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from Mallorca; expelled from Spain before 1400
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nadal is read(measured from records)
Nadal 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.
- Spanish54%
Christmas day, Nativity day
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
A surname from the Romance languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French15%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nadal in French.
- Portuguese5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nadal in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Nadal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #401 | 8,725 | 1 in 5.7K | 8.7K | Nadal | 167 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Nadal | 46 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 376 | Nadal | 241 |
| AR Argentina | — | 3,180 | 1 in 14K | 3.2K | Nadal | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Nadal | 16 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #405 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Nadal | 22 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 393 | 1 in 8.6K | 393 | Nadal | 21 |
8,725 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Nadal 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.
from Mallorca; expelled from Spain before 1400
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
from the personal name Nadal, from nadal ‘Christmas’ (from Latin natalis ‘birthday’). Compare Noel.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, forma dialetal reduzida de Nadale
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
of a river. fortunate.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
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)
- Josep Maria Cullellb. 1942ESnot in their usual nameSpanish economist and politician
- Toni Nadalb. 1961ESSpanish tennis coach
- Miguel Ángel Nadalb. 1966ESSpanish footballer
- Miki Nadalb. 1967ESSpanish actor
- Rosario Nadalb. 1968ESSpanish consultant, art director, and model
- Álvaro Nadalb. 1970ESSpanish politician
- Serhiy Nadalb. 1975UAUkrainian politician, Mayor of Ternopil
- Lymari Nadalb. 1978USPuerto Rican actress
- Rafael Nadalb. 1986ESSpanish tennis player (born 1986)
- Xisco Nadalb. 1986ESSpanish footballer
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)
Attested in 62 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 8.7K | #639 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8.7K | #639 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 494 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 486 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 459 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 393 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 376 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Nadal come from?
- from Mallorca; expelled from Spain before 1400 Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Nadal?
- A machine transcription gives /nadal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Nadal mean?
- In Spanish, Christmas day, Nativity day
- What are other forms of the name Nadal?
- In the etymology graph, Navidad is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nadal have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 8.7 thousand people named Nadal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nadal.
- Where is Nadal most common?
- Nadal is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nadal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,725 people named Nadal, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadal compared with other names?
- In Spain, Nadal is the 401st most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nadalThe 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, “Nadal” — the 401st most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.