Pralle
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈpɹeɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pralle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 434K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 683K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 434K (inferred from the name graph)
487 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pralle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 487 | 1 in 683K | 511 | Pralle | 48 |
| BE Belgium | 27 | 1 in 434K | 27 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 4 |
| DE Germany | — | — | — | Pralle | 58 |
487 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fred Pralleb. 1916USAmerican college basketball player in the 1930s
- Kirsten Prallemusher
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 511 | #40,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 487 | #44,193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 458 | #49,576 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 27 | #39,765 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #205,172 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #375,407 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Pralle?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpɹeɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pralle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 487 people named Pralle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pralle.
- Where is Pralle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pralle is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 434 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pralle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 487 people named Pralle in 2010, about 1 in 683 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pralle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pralleThe 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, “Pralle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.