Sekali

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Indonesian: once

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/səkali/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sekali is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 2.4M

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.

Spain (measured from records)

21 people

Sources
10 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

once

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sekali is read(measured from records)

Sekali is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Indonesian49%

    once

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French23%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sekali in French.

  • Arabic7.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sekali in Arabic.

  • English5.7%

    What if, lest (something problematic or unanticipated happens)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sekali 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.

Where Sekali is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain211 in 2.4M21—1
BE Belgium91 in 1.3M9Sekali2
AU Australia———Sekali10
US United States———Sekali8
DE Germany———Sekali6

21 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)

Sekali 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.

  • Kuat Sekali Prajurit Berakal Cerdik Anugrah Allah SWT yang Sangat Berharga. Cocok, Sesuai, Berharga. Anugrah allah Swt. Kejernihan Hati Manusia. Murni, Suci, Jernih, Nyata, Jelas, Benar. Hati. Manusia, Insan. Pepohonan Yang Selalu Hijau

    as a nameKitab Rangkaian Terbaik Nama-Nama Bayi Islami

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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Sekali
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—21#81,364
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—21#80,648
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20089#76,065

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Sekali mean, and where does it come from?
once Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Sekali?
A machine transcription gives /səkali/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
In which country does Sekali have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 21 people named Sekali, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sekali most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sekali is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 1.3 million people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sekali?
In Spain, the national register counted 21 people named Sekali, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.

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The 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, “Sekali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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