Szala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: scale (dish of a balance)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/szɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Szala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 17K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 63K
- NONorway1 in 124K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
2,263 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
scale (dish of a balance)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Szala 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,263 | 1 in 17K | 1.1K | Szala | 71 |
| US United States | 309 | 1 in 1.1M | 357 | Szala | 31 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 678K | 11 | Szala | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Szala | 6 |
| NO Norway | 44 | 1 in 124K | 44 | Szala | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 12 | 1 in 63K | 12 | — | — |
2,263 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alina Szalab. 1927PLPolish philologist
- Ervín Szalab. 1935CZCzech soccer player (1935-2014)
- Wojciech Szalab. 1976PLPolish footballer
- Agnieszka Szala-PoździejPLPolish molecular biologist
- Janusz SzalaPLPolish materials engineer
- Marcin SzalaPLresearcher
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.1K | #2,679 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.1K | #2,649 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 357 | #54,152 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 309 | #64,388 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #28,406 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 12 | #613 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 11 | #134,717 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Szala mean, and where does it come from?
- scale (dish of a balance) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Szala?
- A machine transcription gives /szɑɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Szala have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Szala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled szala.
- Where is Szala most common?
- Szala is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Szala?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,263 people named Szala in 2026, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/szalaThe 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, “Szala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.