Shal
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Obsolete spelling of shall.
- INIndia1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 851K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 853K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- 1 in 851K (inferred from the name graph)
1,245 people
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete spelling of shall.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,245 | 1 in 1.1M | 1.2K | Shal | 37 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Shal | 13 |
| US United States | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 115 | Shal | 30 |
| PL Poland | 45 | 1 in 851K | 24 | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 853K | — | Shal | 6 |
1,245 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Shal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In woe, liquid, fresh water, water-well, lake
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Irish, lenited form of sal
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.2K | #4,622 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 115 | #145,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 100 | #160,975 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #81,200 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #87,945 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #11,592 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Shal mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of shall. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Shal have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Shal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shal.
- Where is Shal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shal is densest in Poland — about 1 in 851 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shal?
- In India, the national register counted 1,245 people named Shal, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shalThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.