Rahal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁaal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rahal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 7.6K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 8.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
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.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rahal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | listed | Rahal | 15 |
| SY Syria | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 1 | Rahal | 6 |
| FR France | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 248 | — | 2 |
| MA Morocco | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Rahal | 20 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | — | Rahal | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 903 | 1 in 234K | 903 | — | — |
| LB Lebanon | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Rahal | 11 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Rahal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A surname, with one or more origins, found in Europe (especially Germany and Slovakia) and America.
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)
- Abdelatif Rahalb. 1922DZAlgerian politician (1922-2014)
- James Rahalb. 1933USAmerican physician (1933–2011)
- Oulayab. 1936TNnot in their usual nameTunisian actress and singer (1936–1990)
- Bobby Rahalb. 1953USAmerican racecar driver
- Beihdja Rahalb. 1962DZAlgerian musician
- Carla Rahalb. 1973BGBulgarian actress
- Malika Rahalb. 1974FRFrench historian
- Jony Rahalb. 1974VEVenezuelan politician
- Sabrina Satob. 1981BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian TV host
- Graham Rahalb. 1989USAmerican racecar driver
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 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 903 | #10,190 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 248 | — |
| SY Syria | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #333 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Rahal?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁaal/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Rahal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Rahal in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rahal.
- How common is the name Rahal?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 903 people named Rahal, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rahal?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rahalThe 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, “Rahal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.