Wall
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Person who lives by a wall; (ii) person who lives by a spring or stream; (iii) re-anglicized Irish Gaelic de Bhal, from Vale
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 26 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/wɔl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wall is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 2.6K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.7K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 495 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
53,794 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)(i) Person who lives by a wall; (ii) person who lives by a spring or stream; (iii) re-anglicized Irish Gaelic de Bhal, from Vale.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wall 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #525 | 53,794 | 1 in 6.2K | 54K | Wall | 495 |
| GB United Kingdom | #397 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 21K | Wall | 249 |
| CA Canada | #353 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Wall | 201 |
| AU Australia | #350 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Wall | 191 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Wall | 27 |
| SE Sweden | #250 | 3,866 | 1 in 2.6K | 3.9K | Wall | 97 |
| IE Ireland | #237 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Wall | 115 |
| IS Iceland | #608 | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Wall | 11 |
53,794 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Wall 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 English, golo and goro; a general name for defen- sive walls and fences. Wall of mud or sun-dried bricks around a town, dada; to build a wall, to
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In English, de Valle, du Val; Norman; found in Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Limerick and Cork
as a nameIrish family names
In English, from residence near some wall; first attested Robert de la Walle 1195 P (Essex)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-cfr, A modal particle, generally equivalent to German wohl, Dutch wel, sometimes also to English well, but often not literally translatable.
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)- Marcel Ophulsb. 1927FRnot in their usual nameGerman-French filmmaker (1927–2025)
- Robert Wallb. 1939USAmerican martial artist (1939–2022)
- Jeff Wallb. 1946CACanadian photographer (born 1946)
- Larry Wallb. 1954USAmerican computer programmer and author
- Jack Wallb. 1964USAmerican video game music composer
- Angus Wallb. 1967USAmerican film editor and film title designer
- Kirsten Wallb. 1975CACanadian curler
- Paul Wallb. 1981USAmerican rapper, actor, jewelry designer and DJ from Texas (born 1981)
- Kim Wallb. 1987SESwedish journalist (1987-2017)
- John Wallb. 1990USAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
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)43 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 54K | #557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 54K | #631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 52K | #635 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 21K | #353 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.9K | #254 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Wall mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Person who lives by a wall; (ii) person who lives by a spring or stream; (iii) re-anglicized Irish Gaelic de Bhal, from Vale. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Wall?
- A machine transcription gives /wɔl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wall have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 54 thousand people named Wall, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wall.
- How common is the name Wall?
- In the United States, the national register counted 53,794 people named Wall in 2010, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Wall compared with other names?
- In the United States, Wall is the 525th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wallThe 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, “Wall” — the 525th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.