Nales

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nales is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
  • PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 40K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 71K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈390 people, est.

Sources
95 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Puerto Rico, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nales 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.

Where Nales is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈390 est.≈1 in 282K—Nales19
NL Netherlands—2441 in 71K244Nales22
US United States—1921 in 1.7M199Nales95
PR Puerto Rico#851≈79 est.≈1 in 40K—Nales6
BR Brazil—671 in 3.2M67Nales9
AR Argentina—601 in 758K60Nales19
NO Norway—≈26 est.≈1 in 212K—Nales1

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nales is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Netherlands

    Also written Nalès

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nales 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 Javanese, having the texture of cooked taro (said of rice that is gummy from being cooked in too much water)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In ang, alternative form of nealles

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Nales
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007244#8,523
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020199#97,730
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010192#95,115
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000153#107,565
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—67#85,160
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—60—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

In which country does Nales have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 388 people named Nales in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nales.
How common is the name Nales?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 244 people named Nales in 2007, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
How common is Nales compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Nales is the 851st most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Nales” — the 851st most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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