Nahl
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nahl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 286K(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 662K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.5M
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 286K (inferred from the name graph)
≈92 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
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)
Nahl 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 | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | listed | Nahl | 76 |
| EG Egypt | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Nahl | 12 |
| BE Belgium | 41 | 1 in 286K | 41 | Nahl | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | 37 | Nahl | 16 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 662K | — | Nahl | 4 |
| AU Australia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Nahl | 16 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Nahl | 5 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Samuel Nahlb. 1664DEGerman sculptor (1664-1727)
- Johann August, le vieux Nahlb. 1710DEGerman sculptor (1710-1781)
- Samuel Nahlb. 1748DEGerman sculptor (1748–1813)
- Johann August Nahl the Youngerb. 1752CHSwiss-born German painter (1752-1825)
- Charles Christian Nahlb. 1818USAmerican artist (1818-1878)
- Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahlb. 1833USAmerican artist (1833-1889)
- Perham Wilhelm Nahlb. 1869USAmerican printmaker, painter, illustrator and an arts educator (1869-1935)
- Virgil Theodore Nahlb. 1876USAmerican illustrator (1876–1930)
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 41 | #30,148 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 37 | #61,294 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nahl?
- A machine transcription gives /nəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nahl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 92 people named Nahl in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nahl.
- Where is Nahl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nahl is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 286 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nahl?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 41 people named Nahl in 2008, about 1 in 286 thousand 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/nahlThe 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, “Nahl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.