Äpplë
surname · Latin script
Äpplë is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 6,948 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: PIE word *h₂ébōl From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel (“apple, fruit in general, ball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple”) (compare Scots aipple, West.
- GYGuyana1 in 8.9K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 48K
- CACanada≈1 in 49K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
6,948 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Apple in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 1 more and Applé in DE Germany.
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)- Middle Englishappel(measured from records)
- Old Englishæppel“apple“apple, fruit in general, ball”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*applu(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*aplaz“apple”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ébōl“apple”(measured from records)
PIE word *h₂ébōl From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel (“apple, fruit in general, ball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple”) (compare Scots aipple, West Frisian apel, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Swedish äpple, Danish æble), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”) (compare Welsh afal, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian я́блоко (jábloko), possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”)).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 36 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Äpplë is found
(measured from records)Äpplë 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 | 6,948 | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Apple | 373 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 69K | listed | Apple | 93 |
| CA Canada | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 1 | Apple | 61 |
| AU Australia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 1 | Apple | 50 |
| DE Germany | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 945K | — | Applé | 37 |
| GY Guyana | 84 | 1 in 8.9K | 84 | — | 3 |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
6,948 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Äpplë mean, and where does it come from?
- PIE word *h₂ébōl From Middle English appel, from Old English æppel (“apple, fruit in general, ball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu, from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple”) (compare Scots aipple, West… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Äpplë?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Äpplë, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled apple. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Äpplë most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Äpplë is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 8.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Äpplë?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,948 people named Äpplë in 2010, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A4ppl%C3%ABThe 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, “Äpplë” — ranked 4698th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.