Nerval
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Of or relating to nerves
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/nˈɜːvəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nerval is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
- PHPhilippines
- FRFrance
- CACanada
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Of or relating to nerves.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Nerval 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 German, neural
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, francuski pjesnik, pripovjedač, pisac igrokaza, opernih libreta i putopisa, cijenjeni prevoditelj (Goetheov Faust ), u poeziji melankolik, u životu sklon mistici, magiji i okultnome (ciklus soneta Himere ); život završio samoubojstvom
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Édouard Nervalb. 1897CHSwiss director (1897-2000)
- Nathalie Nervalb. 1926FRFrench actress (1926–2012)
- Michel Nervalb. 1945FRFrench screenwriter (1945-2009)
- Ninette Nervalb. 1983PLPolish poet
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 94 | #66,338 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #31,618 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
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
- What does the name Nerval mean, and where does it come from?
- Of or relating to nerves. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nerval?
- A machine transcription gives /nˈɜːvəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nerval have the most bearers?
- Nerval is most frequently recorded in the Philippines.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nervalThe 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, “Nerval”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.