Pyl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular imperative of pylić
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/paɪl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pyl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 911Kas Пыль(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 41K
- PLPoland1 in 125K
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 Pyl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
307 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Пыль in RU Russia and Пыл in BY Belarus.
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)
second-person singular imperative of pylić
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pyl 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.
307 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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Pyl is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Pil.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In pal, elephant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, pollen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, arrow
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Theodor Pylb. 1647DEGerman physicist and theologian
- Joannes Theodorus Pylb. 1749DEGerman author (1749-1794)
- Theodor Pylb. 1826SEGerman historian (1826–1904)
- Staf Pylb. 1923BEBelgian artist and stained glass designer (1923–2007)
- Jacek Pylb. 1962PLPolish priest
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 283 | #5,893 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 281 | #6,168 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 155 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 155 | #20,368 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 152 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 152 | #21,167 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 87 | #70,261 |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Pyl mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular imperative of pylić Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pyl?
- A machine transcription gives /paɪl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pyl have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 307 people named Pyl, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pyl.
- Where is Pyl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pyl is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pyl?
- In Poland, the national register counted 307 people named Pyl in 2026, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pyl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pylThe 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, “Pyl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.