Nosal

Name: Nosal: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
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Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: nickname for someone with a big nose (Dictionary of American Family Names)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/ˈnɔ.sal/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary

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Nosal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 4,671 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Nosal is also written Носаль in Cyrillic.

PLPoland1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
SKSlovakia1 in 20K
CZCzechia1 in 44K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nosal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
: 2 (measured from records)
Record sources: 103 (measured from records)
: 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Nosal in other scripts: Cyrillic

NosalLatin

НосальNosal in Cyrillic

Locally spelled Носаль in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, Nozal in ES Spain, Nosáľ in SK Slovakia and Nosál in CZ Czechia.

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.

How to pronounce Nosal

Polish:/ˈnɔ.sal/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Ukrainian:/nɔsɐlʲ/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

nickname for someone with a big nose.

Cited for this meaning 1

Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Nosal is found

Nosal 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 Nosal is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
PL Poland	—	4,671	1 in 8.2K	2.3K	Nosal	74
UA Ukraine	—	≈1,400 est.	≈1 in 27K	—	Носаль	17
US United States	—	1,374	1 in 242K	1.4K	Nosal	41
RU Russia	—	≈680 est.	≈1 in 212K	—	Носаль	103
ES Spain	—	558as Nozal	1 in 90K	558	Nozal	3
SK Slovakia	#743	274	1 in 20K	274	Nosáľ	27
CZ Czechia	—	246	1 in 44K	246	Nosál	22
NO Norway	—	68	1 in 80K	68	Nosal	4

4,671 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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

Nosal is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Germany
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Nosál
French surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Philippines
Also written Nosàl, Nosál
Spanish surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Argentina, Colombia
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Nosáľ
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Nosáľ, Nosál
Croatian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Serbia
Also written Носал
Hindi surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Nosál

25 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.

Notable people with this name

Marcin Nosalb. 1969PLPolish diplomat
Jan Nosalb. 1973PLPolish actor
Paweł NosalPLresearcher

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

FormalDear Nosal,

InformalHello,

Evidence

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nosal mean, and where does it come from?: nickname for someone with a big nose. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Nosal?: It depends on the language: in Polish /ˈnɔ.sal/ (Wiktionary); in Ukrainian /nɔsɐlʲ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Nosal?: In Poland, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Nosal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nosal. After it come Ukraine, United States, Russia and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Nosal most common?: Nosal is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Nosal?: In Poland, the national register counted 4,671 people named Nosal in 2026, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
How common is Nosal compared with other names?: In Slovakia, Nosal is the 743rd most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nosal

The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Nosal” — ranked 1088th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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