Talal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: being pleasant, nice, admirable, agreeable, joy, a beautiful form or appearance
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/təˈɫɑɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Talal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the 15th most common given name.
- OMOman≈1 in 610(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 832
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 1.1K
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 Talal 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 610 (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
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)
being pleasant, nice, admirable, agreeable, joy, a beautiful form or appearance
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Talal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | listed | Talal | 73 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #124 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Talal | 155 |
| US United States | — | 10,246as Talon | 1 in 32K | 9.8K | Talal | 239 |
| SY Syria | #263 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Talal | 57 |
| OM Oman | #15 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 610 | — | Talal | 66 |
| KW Kuwait | #70 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 832 | — | Talal | 105 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #314 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Talal | 119 |
| SE Sweden | — | 590 | 1 in 17K | 590 | Talal | 26 |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Talal 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.
‘Dew’ or ‘fine rain’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In bem, become cold, cool down
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In bem, become quiet
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In lua, become wet
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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)
- Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1930SAmember of the House of Saud (1931-2018)
- Talal Salmanb. 1938LBLebanese journalist
- Talal Maddahb. 1940SASaudi musician (1940–2000)
- Talal Najib. 1946ILPolitician politician
- Talal Najjarb. 1953SYSyrian weightlifter
- Talal al-Harbib. 1956SASaudi Arabian actor (1956-2019)
- Talal Shahwanb. 1968PSPalestinian chemist
- Talal Afifib. 1976SDSudanese film curator and producer
- Talal Faisalb. 1985EGEgyptian psychiatrist
- Talal Hajib. 2007SASaudi Arabian footballer (born 2007)
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 56 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,673 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 590 | #2,478 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 284 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 19 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #9,673 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Talal mean, and where does it come from?
- being pleasant, nice, admirable, agreeable, joy, a beautiful form or appearance Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Talal?
- A machine transcription gives /təˈɫɑɫ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Talal a male or female name?
- Talal 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 Talal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Talal in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled talal.
- How common is the name Talal?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 590 people named Talal, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Talal compared with other names?
- In Oman, Talal is the 15th most common given name of 4,945 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/talalThe 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, “Talal” — the 15th most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.