Nael
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nael is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Mayotte it is the 3rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hebrew; diminutive of Anaël, meaning « gracieux ».
- FRFrance1 in 3.3K◐
- SYSyria1 in 33K
- ESSpain1 in 33K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈24K ●
- Sources
- 201 ●
- 1 in 3.3K ◐
across 8 countries
27K records
Official registry-verified
France
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Naël in CH Switzerland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Hebrew; diminutive of Anaël, meaning « gracieux ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #550 | 20,405 | 20K rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 20K | Nael | 201 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,524△ | 53 rec. | 1 in 33K | 1.5K | Nael | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | 1,021 | 1K rec. | — | — | Nael | 24 |
| BR Brazil | — | 940 | — | 1 in 225K | 940 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 787 | 2.5K rec. | 1 in 423K | 787 | Nael | 142 |
| EG Egypt | — | 527 | 315 rec. | — | — | Nael | 57 |
| YT Mayotte | #3 | 441 | 12 rec. | — | 20 | Nael | 6 |
| JO Jordan | #974 | 400 | 398 rec. | — | — | Nael | 57 |
| IL Israel | — | 320 | 383 rec. | — | — | Nael | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 311△ | 29 rec. | 1 in 33K | 311 | — | 12 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 252 | 283 rec. | — | — | Nael | 11 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 202 | 86 rec. | — | — | Nael | 41 |
Roughly 20K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 3.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French103K71%
- Portuguese13K9%
- Spanish9.1K6%
- Arabic5.5K4%
- English4.9K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 103,250 | 71% |
| Portuguese | 13,174 | 9% |
| Spanish | 9,075 | 6% |
| Arabic | 5,500 | 4% |
| English | 4,883 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nael is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, nail (of a finger or toe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, nail (of metal)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1978 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1993 | 7 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 7 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2002 | 7 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 19 |
| 2013 | 32 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 31 |
| 2016 | 39 |
| 2017 | 44 |
| 2018 | 42 |
| 2019 | 41 |
| 2020 | 81 |
| 2021 | 102 |
| 2022 | 101 |
| 2023 | 187 |
| 2024 | 215 |
| 2025 | 263 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 40 years between 1975–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nail Hanonb. 1952IQnot in their usual nameIraqi archaeologist
- Nael Eltoukhyb. 1978EGEgyptian writer
- Naël Marandinb. 1981FRFrench actor
- Joseph Hayatb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameEnglish journalist and television presenter
- Nael al-AjlouniJOJordanian politician
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 66 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 12K | #219 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #2,128 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 940 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 911 | #8,644 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 892 | #1,379 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 887 | #9,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 787 | #14,176 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 312 | #3,441 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 311 | #3,828 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 263 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 175 | #198 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 168 | #564 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 439 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nael?
- We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Nael (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nael have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Nael in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nael.
- How common is Nael compared with other names?
- In France, Nael is the 550th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Nael a male or female name?
- Nael is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Nael mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hebrew; diminutive of Anaël, meaning « gracieux ».
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Nael” — the 550th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.