Nosal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for someone with a big nose
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnoʊzəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nosal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 28Kas Носаль
- RURussia≈1 in 218Kas Носаль
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,671 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Носаль in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, CN China, 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname for someone with a big nose.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 4,671 | 1 in 8.2K | 2.3K | Nosal | 74 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Носаль | 17 |
| US United States | — | 1,374 | 1 in 242K | 1.4K | Nosal | 41 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Носаль | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Носаль | 103 |
| 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; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Czesław Nosalb. 1942PLPolish psychologist
- Marcin Nosalb. 1969PLPolish diplomat
- Jan Nosalb. 1973PLPolish actor
- Agata Nosal-Ikonowiczb. 1973PLPolish social activist
- Paweł NosalPLresearcher
- Stanisław NosalPLPolish engineer
- Andrzej NosalPLPolish researcher, chemist
- Gilliane NosalCAresearcher and professor in the pharmacology department at Laval University
- Eva NosalCAPh.D. University of Calgary 1975
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.3K | #1,088 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.3K | #1,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,628 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,680 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #21,169 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #93,992 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 8 | #19,022 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnoʊzəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nosal have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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/nosalThe 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, “Nosal” — the 743rd most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.