Hébel

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hébel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German hebel, from Old High German *hebil, from Proto-Germanic *habilaz. By surface analysis, heben + -el. Cognate with Middle Low German hēvel, Middle English hevel, heveld.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 22K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 88K
  • NONorway1 in 130K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

1,758 people, 2026

Sources
118 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hebel in US United States.

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)

Derivation of Hébel: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Hébel
  1. Middle High Germanhebel(measured from records)
  2. Old High German*hebil(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Germanic*habilaz(measured from records)

From Middle High German hebel, from Old High German *hebil, from Proto-Germanic *habilaz. By surface analysis, heben + -el. Cognate with Middle Low German hēvel, Middle English hevel, heveld.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hébel 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.

Where Hébel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1,7581 in 22K892——
US United States1,5021 in 221K1.6KHebel34
BR Brazil1581 in 1.3M158——
DK Denmark671 in 88K67——
NO Norway421 in 130K42——
SE Sweden361 in 283K36—1

1,758 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hébel is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Chile, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hebel

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Hebel

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Hebel

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Hebel

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hébel under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hébel mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle High German hebel, from Old High German *hebil, from Proto-Germanic *habilaz. By surface analysis, heben + -el. Cognate with Middle Low German hēvel, Middle English hevel, heveld. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Hébel have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Hébel, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hébel most common?
Hébel is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hébel?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,758 people named Hébel in 2026, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.

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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, “Hébel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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