Reol
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/reol/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Reol is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: règle, principe, régime.
- ESSpain1 in 505K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 540Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- 1 in 505K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)règle, principe, régime
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Reol 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 535K | 22 | Reol | 84 |
| ES Spain | 99 | 1 in 505K | 99 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Reol | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Reol is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, shelving, shelves (as a unit), rack (with shelves)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a shelf, a bookshelf, a bookcase
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, shelves, bookcase
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, règle, principe, régime
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Juan Manuel Reolb. 1933ESSpanish politician
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 99 | #27,695 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 99 | #27,638 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 22 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Reol mean, and where does it come from?
- règle, principe, régime Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Reol?
- In Spanish /reol/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Reol have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 128 people named Reol in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reol.
- Where is Reol most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Reol is densest in Spain — about 1 in 505 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Reol?
- In Spain, the national register counted 99 people named Reol, about 1 in 505 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Reol?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reolThe 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, “Reol”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.