Čakal

surname · Latin script

Čakal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Čakal is also written Чакал in Cyrillic.

  • NONorway1 in 91K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 202K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 300K

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 Čakal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.

India (measured from records)

141 named Chakal

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
15 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Čakal in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
ČakalLatin(measured from records)
ЧакалČakal in Cyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Čakal is found

(measured from records)

Čakal 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 Čakal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India141as Chakal1 in 9.4M141——
NO Norway601 in 91K60—2
BE Belgium581 in 202K58—1
CH Switzerland281 in 300K28—1
HR Croatia141 in 302K14Čakal4
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈8 est.≈1 in 382K—Čakal2

141 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Čakal is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Germany, France, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, German, French

    Also written Çakal, Cakal, Čakaľ

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)

Čakal 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 Slovak, masculine singular l-participle of čakať

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Čakal?
In India, the national register counted about 141 people named Chakal, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Norway, Belgium, Switzerland and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Čakal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čakal is densest in Norway — about 1 in 91 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čakal?
In Norway, the national register counted 60 people named Čakal, about 1 in 91 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, “Čakal” — ranked 22544th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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