Flade
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from 'cake'; less often 'swamp grass, rush'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/flaːdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flade is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 79K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.4M
- DKDenmark1 in 82K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from 'cake'; less often 'swamp grass, rush'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Flade 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Flade | 65 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 698K | — | Flade | 1 |
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 120 | Flade | 75 |
| DK Denmark | 72 | 1 in 82K | 72 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Flade | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 4 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 675K | — | Flade | 1 |
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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
- Dietrich Fladeb. 1534DEGerman jurist
- Tina Fladeb. 1905DEGerman dancer (1905-1997)
- Johannes Erich Fladeb. 1926DEGerman pundit
- Hermann Fladeb. 1932DEGerman political scientist
- Antje Fladeb. 1941DEGerman psychologist and author
- Klaus-Dietrich Fladeb. 1952DEGerman astronaut
- Martin Fladeb. 1958DEGerman conservationist and ornithologist
- Michael Fladeb. 1975DEGerman composer
- Juliane Fladeb. 1987DEGerman cultural studies scholar
- Uwe FladeGerman film director
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 120 | #130,443 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 72 | #7,560 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Flade mean, and where does it come from?
- from 'cake'; less often 'swamp grass, rush' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Flade?
- A machine transcription gives /flaːdə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Flade have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Flade in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flade.
- How common is the name Flade?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 72 people named Flade, about 1 in 82 thousand 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/fladeThe 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, “Flade”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.