Vakalis
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/vakalis/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from βακαλης
Vakalis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. Vakalis is also written Βακαλης in Greek.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 6.3Mfew records
- GRGreece≈1 in 38Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vakalis in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Vakalis
- Greek:/vakalis/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Vakalis is found
(measured from records)Vakalis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 3 | Vakalis | 29 |
| US United States | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | listed | Vakalis | 49 |
| AU Australia | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Vakalis | 21 |
| DE Germany | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Vakalis | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | — | Vakalis | 7 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 2 |
| BM Bermuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Vakalis | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nikos Vakalisb. 1939GRGreek politician (1939-2017)
- Nassos Vakalisb. 1966GRAmerican film director
- Donna Vakalisb. 1979CACanadian modern pentathlon
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Vakalis?
- In Greek /vakalis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vakalis?
- Mondonomo estimates about 273 people named Vakalis in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vakalis. After it come United States, Australia, Germany and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vakalis?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 4 people named Vakalis in 2008, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Vakalis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vakalisThe 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, “Vakalis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.