Westfal
surname · Latin script
Westfal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from Westfalen (region); bearers: 85.
- PLPoland1 in 62K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 357K
- SESweden1 in 392K
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
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
622 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Westfál in CZ Czechia.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from Westfalen (region); bearers: 85.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Westfal 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.
622 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the dfa-band-4 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Westfal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymischer Herkunftsname: aus Westfalen / Westfalia, Bezeichnung für jemanden aus dieser Region.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Herkunftsname zu Westfalen; 85 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, from Westfalen 'Westphalia'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Johannes Westfalb. 1310FIFinnish priest
- Tadeusz Westfalb. 1915PLOfficer of the Polish Army (1915-1944)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 350 | #23,268 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 317 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 317 | #10,305 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 305 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 305 | #10,923 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26 | #21,192 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 13 | #70,057 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 13 | #17,426 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,653 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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 Westfal mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from Westfalen (region); bearers: 85. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Westfal have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 622 people named Westfal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled westfal.
- Where is Westfal most common?
- Westfal is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 62 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Westfal?
- In Poland, the national register counted 622 people named Westfal in 2026, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/westfalThe same 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), 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, “Westfal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.