Dal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: branch
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/daɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 7K
- ITItaly≈1 in 7.4K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
branch
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dal 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.
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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Dal is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Ağacın gövdesinden ayrılan kollardan her biri. 2. Arka, sırt. 3. Kol.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In Hungarian, song
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Khmer, to box, to hit with the closed fist, to fight with the fist; to beat stronger than normal (of the heart); to pound (of the heart). Ex .: i His pulse is getting stronger. &lCUniU9fi to box two or three rounds. filjjjj&inj boxing. SlfUficiJ
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Hungarian, to sing
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In Dutch, valley
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
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)
- Vladimir Dalb. 1801UARussian lexicographer (1801-1872)
- Lev Vladimirovich Dahlb. 1834RUnot in their usual nameRussian architect (1834-1878)
- Ingerid Dalb. 1895NONorwegian linguist (1895–1985)
- Harald Dalb. 1902NONorwegian painter (1902-1972)
- Oleg Dahlb. 1941RUnot in their usual nameSoviet actor (1941–1981)
- Ahmet Salih Dalb. 1971TRTurkish statesperson (born 1971)
- Harald Dalb. 1972NOactor
- Nedim Dalb. 1975TRTurkish basketball player (born 1975)
- Jonas Dalb. 1976DKDanish footballer and manager
- Sophie Dalb. 1981DEGerman actress
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 47 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 30K | #599 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 91 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dal mean, and where does it come from?
- branch Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Dal?
- In the etymology graph, Dahl is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Dal?
- A machine transcription gives /daɫ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Dal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Dal in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dal.
- How common is the name Dal?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 30,455 people named Dal, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Dal compared with other names?
- In Italy, Dal is the 634th most common surname of 502,013 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dalThe 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, “Dal” — the 634th most common surname in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.