Durel
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dyʀəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Durel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: See Dorrell . 791 Further information: This spelling is rare in Britain but thriving in the USA.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 525K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 651K
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
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)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 525K (inferred from the name graph)
281 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dürel in BE Belgium.
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)
See Dorrell . 791 Further information: This spelling is rare in Britain but thriving in the USA.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Durel 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 | 281 | 1 in 1.2M | 318 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 95 | 1 in 2.2M | 95 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Durel | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 18 | 1 in 651K | 18 | Dürel | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | — | 1 |
281 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)
- John Durelb. 1625GBAnglican cleric from Jersey
- Henry Durelb. 1812FRFrench official (1812-1878)
- Joachim Durelb. 1878FRFrench politician (1878–1939)
- Gaston Jules Louis Durelb. 1879FRFrench painter (1879–1954)
- Joey Durelb. 1953USAmerican mayor
- Philippe Durelb. 1954FRcyclist
- Alain Durelb. 1961FRFrench writer
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 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 105 | #49,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #49,963 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Durel mean, and where does it come from?
- See Dorrell . 791 Further information: This spelling is rare in Britain but thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Durel?
- A machine transcription gives /dyʀəl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Durel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 281 people named Durel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Durel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Durel is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 525 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Durel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 281 people named Durel in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/durelThe 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, “Durel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.