Göthel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit got- 'Gott', aus der Kurzform zu Gottfried, Gottwald oder Gotthard; 367 Belege
Göthel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 131K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2Mas Goethel
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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 Göthel 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 131K (inferred from the name graph)
≈610 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Goethel in US United States, AU Australia, IT Italy and 1 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(measured from records)
Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit got- 'Gott', aus der Kurzform zu Gottfried, Gottwald oder Gotthard; 367 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Göthel 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 | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 131K | listed | Göthel | 49 |
| US United States | 163as Goethel | 1 in 2M | 164 | Goethel | 91 |
| BR Brazil | 114as Goethel | 1 in 1.9M | 114 | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Goethel | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Goethel | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Goethel | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dfa-band-6 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Göthel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem Rufnamen auf God-/Göt- (l-Diminutiv); 367 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christian Friedrich Göthelb. 1804DEorgan builder
- Siegfried Göthelb. 1942DEGerman musician
- Matthias Göthelb. 1953DEGerman badminton player
- Andreas Göthelb. 1958DEGerman biathlete
- Ralf Göthelb. 1962DEGerman biathlete
- Erik Göthelb. 1973DEGerman handball player
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6 | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Göthel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Familienname zu einem Rufnamen mit got- 'Gott', aus der Kurzform zu Gottfried, Gottwald oder Gotthard; 367 Belege.
- In which country does Göthel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 611 people named Göthel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled göthel.
- How common is the name Göthel?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 4 people named Göthel in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/g%C3%B6thelThe 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, “Göthel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.