Sakal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈseɪkəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sakal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.
- KHCambodia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 199K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 933K
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 Sakal 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.
- Albania (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
4,392 named Sokol
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cambodia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sukul in US United States and স্কুল in BD Bangladesh.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sakal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | 4,392as Sokol | 1 in 700 | 4.4K | — | — |
| KH Cambodia | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Sakal | 13 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | স্কুল | 11 |
| US United States | 428as Sokol | 1 in 777K | 5.6K | Sukul | 55 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 933K | — | Sakal | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | 28as Sokol | 1 in 75K | 32 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 14as Sokol | 1 in 419K | 50 | — | — |
4,392 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Sakal is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In map-pro, restraining device on animals
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pam, to choke; to strangle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, strangled; choked
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, hoe, pike
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In gag, beard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bik, yoke
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)
- Sakal Keob. 1970FRbadminton player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 369 | #55,619 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 361 | #60,295 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 356 | #54,269 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 40 | #13,072 |
| 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 Sakal?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈseɪkəɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sakal a male or female name?
- Sakal is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sakal have the most bearers?
- In Albania, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Sokol, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sakal?
- In Albania, the national register counted 4,392 people named Sokol, about 1 in 700 residents.
What do you want to know about Sakal?
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/sakalThe 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, “Sakal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.