Dul
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Khmer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/duɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 9K(measured from records)
- KHCambodia≈1 in 30K
- NLNetherlands1 in 54K
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 Dul 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
- 73 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
4,231 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Дуль 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)
A surname from Khmer.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dul 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 4,231 | 1 in 9K | 2.1K | Dul | 73 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 75K | listed | — | 1 |
| KH Cambodia | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Dul | 10 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Dul | 5 |
| US United States | 494 | 1 in 673K | 494 | Dul | 51 |
| NL Netherlands | 321 | 1 in 54K | 321 | Dul | 6 |
| BY Belarus | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Дуль | 9 |
4,231 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Dul 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 trk-pro, widow, widower
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Czech, masculine singular past active participle of dout
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, verbal noun of téigh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, verbal noun of téit
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)
- Elisa Dulb. 1998NLDutch speed skater
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 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.1K | #1,228 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.1K | #1,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 494 | #43,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 475 | #48,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 434 | #46,240 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 321 | #6,355 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Dul mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Khmer. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dul?
- A machine transcription gives /duɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dul have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Dul, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dul.
- Where is Dul most common?
- Dul is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dul?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,231 people named Dul in 2026, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dul?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dulThe 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, “Dul”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.