Nogal
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: walnut tree (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/noɡal/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Nogal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 1,063 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- PLPoland1 in 36K(measured from records)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 42K
- ESSpain1 in 66K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
1,063 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Nogal
- Spanish:/noɡal/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Polish:/ˈnɔ.ɡal/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)megapode (any bird in the family Megapodiidae)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nogal is read
(measured from records)Nogal is one spelling over 3 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.
- Spanish67%
walnut tree
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nogal in English.
- Polish5.1%
megapode (any bird in the family Megapodiidae)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Nogal is found
(measured from records)Nogal 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.
1,063 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Nogal 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 Dutch, rather
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In Dutch, rather, quite
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Agnieszka Maria Nogalb. 1970PLPolish political scientist (1970-)
- Artur Nogalb. 1990PLPolish speed skater (1990-)
- Adrián Nogalb. 1993ESSpanish lawyer (1993-)
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Nogal come from?
- megapode (any bird in the family Megapodiidae) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Nogal?
- In the etymology graph, Nuez is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Nogal?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /noɡal/; in Polish /ˈnɔ.ɡal/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Nogal mean?
- In Spanish, walnut tree
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nogal?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Nogal, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Mexico, Spain, Venezuela and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nogal most common?
- Nogal is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 36 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nogal?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,063 people named Nogal in 2026, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nogal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nogalThe 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, “Nogal” — ranked 5746th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.