Eshel
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Eshel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 5Kas אשל(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M
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 Eshel 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 838K (inferred from the name graph)
1,748 named אשל, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled אשל in IL Israel, RO Romania, MA Morocco and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eshel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #517 | 1,748as אשל | 1 in 5K | 1.7K | אשל | 76 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | אשל | 4 |
| US United States | — | 114 | 1 in 2.9M | 126 | Eshel | 92 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 396K | — | אשל | 3 |
| IN India | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | אשל | 2 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | אשל | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | אשל | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | 2 |
1,748 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Yehosua Eisik Eshelb. 1900ILpainter (1900-1966)
- Tamar Eshelb. 1920ILIsraeli politician (1920–2022)
- Bianka Eshel Gershunib. 1932ILIsraeli artist and jeweler (1932-2020)
- Yaakov Eshelb. 1935ILIsraeli agronomist and director
- Gidon Eshelb. 1958ILresearcher
- Amir Eshelb. 1959ILIsraeli military officer
- Eshel Meirb. 1964ILIsraeli artist (1964–1993)
- Tami Caspi-Eshelb. 1965ILIsraeli composer and arranger
- Inbal Eshel Cahanskyb. 1977ILIsraeli poet
- Ofra EshelILIsraeli clinical psychologist
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(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Eshel have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named אשל, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Eshel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Eshel is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 838 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Eshel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 114 people named Eshel in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Eshel compared with other names?
- In Israel, Eshel is the 517th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Eshel?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eshelThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Eshel” — the 517th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.