Yanal

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/jənəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Yanal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SYSyria≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 102K
  • ILIsrael≈1 in 133K

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.

Syria (inferred from the name graph)

≈510 people, est.

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 38K (inferred from the name graph)

Syria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ýanal in TM Turkmenistan.

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)

recorded in Turkish

1. Yanda olan, yana düşen. 2. Alaca, değişik renkli. 3. Kırmızı, pembe. 4. Nehir yatağı.

Sources 1

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yanal 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.

Where Yanal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SY Syria≈510 est.≈1 in 38K1Yanal6
US United States≈110 est.≈1 in 3M7Yanal14
ID Indonesia≈100 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Yanal12
TR Türkiye≈66 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Yanal24
IL Israel≈65 est.≈1 in 133K—Yanal4
TM Turkmenistan≈54 est.≈1 in 102K—Ýanal1
SE Sweden501 in 204K50—1
DK Denmark91 in 652K9——

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yanal is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Syria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ýanal

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Türkiye, Syria

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ýäñål

  • Russian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Янал, Яналь, Ýanal

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Yanal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Turkish, 1. Yanda olan, yana düşen. 2. Alaca, değişik renkli. 3. Kırmızı, pembe. 4. Nehir yatağı.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

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)

Informalمرحباً Yanal،Hi Yanal, (English)

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 15 sources across 10 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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

How do you pronounce Yanal?
A machine transcription gives /jənəl/ (IPA) for Arabic.
Is Yanal a male or female name?
Yanal 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 Yanal have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 505 people named Yanal in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yanal.
How common is the name Yanal?
In Sweden, the national register counted 50 people named Yanal, about 1 in 204 thousand residents.

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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, “Yanal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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