Daval
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/daval/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Daval is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: de, for someone who lived downstream from the main settlement, from OF aval downstream (L ad vallem towards the valley, opposed to ad montem (OF amont) towards the hill, upstream).
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 977K
- ESSpain1 in 2.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 646K (inferred from the name graph)
35 people
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
de, for someone who lived downstream from the main settlement, from OF aval downstream (L ad vallem towards the valley, opposed to ad montem (OF amont) towards the hill, upstream). Vars.: Davau(x), Davault, Daveau. Davenport 1. English: habitation name from a place in Ches., so called from a Brit, river name (apparently a cogn. of MW dafnu to drop, trickle) + OE port market town. 2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gael. O Donndubhartaigh ‘descendant of Donndubhartach’, a personal name com¬ posed of the elements donn brown + dubh black + artach nobleman. A Ches. family called Davenport have been associated for centuries with the area around Macclesfield. They claim descent from Vivian de Davenport (d. c.1257). The family seat is still Capesthorne Hall, near Macclesfield.
Sources 2
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Where in the world(measured from records)
Daval 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.
35 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nicolas Davalb. 1649FRFrench philosopher (1649-1706)
- Paul Davalb. 1937FRFrench politician
- Félix Davalb. 1948FRFrench novelist and poet in Occitan language
- Claude Davalb. 1950FRFrench politician
- Marius Davalb. 1950FRFrench politician
- Joël Davalb. 1952FRFrench politician
- Dominique Davalb. 1959FRFrench politician
- Bertrand Davalb. 1971FRFrench politician
- Hervé Davalb. 1974FRFrench politician
- Anne-Gaëlle Davalb. 1975FRFrench film writer and director
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 702 | #933 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 35 | #134,170 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 20 | #84,369 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 20 | #83,413 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #64,507 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #108,174 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #320,915 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Daval?
- A machine transcription gives /daval/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Daval mean?
- Recorded meaning: de, for someone who lived downstream from the main settlement, from OF aval downstream (L ad vallem towards the valley, opposed to ad montem (OF amont) towards the hill, upstream).
- In which country does Daval have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 35 people named Daval, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Daval most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Daval is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 646 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Daval?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 35 people named Daval, about 1 in 6.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/davalThe 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, “Daval”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.