Waals
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: Walloon (the language)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʋaːls/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Waals is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
- NLNetherlands
- BEBelgium
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Walloon (the language)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Waals is read(measured from records)
Waals is one spelling over 3 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.
- Dutch63%
Walloon (the language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English16%
Johannes Diderik van der, Dutch
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
physicist (Nobel 1910)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Waals in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Joan Henri van der Waalsb. 1920NLDutch physicist
- Frank Waalsb. 1985NLDutch journalist
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 306 | #6,708 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #91,983 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Waals mean, and where does it come from?
- Walloon (the language) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Waals?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋaːls/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- What are other forms of the name Waals?
- In the etymology graph, Welsch is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Waals have the most bearers?
- Waals is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.
What do you want to know about Waals?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waalsThe 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, “Waals”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.