Knébel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Knébel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,523 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Knebel.
- PLPoland1 in 133K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 180K
- CZCzechia1 in 191K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 133K (inferred from the name graph)
1,523 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Knebel 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)Borrowed from German Knebel.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Knébel is found
(measured from records)Knébel 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 | 1,523 | 1 in 218K | 1.5K | Knebel | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 1,045 | 1 in 203K | 1K | — | — |
| PL Poland | 288 | 1 in 133K | 157 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 191 | 1 in 238K | 191 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 96 | 1 in 180K | 96 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 56 | 1 in 191K | 56 | — | — |
1,523 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Maria Knebelb. 1898RUSoviet actor (1898-1985)
- Gerd Knebelb. 1953DEGerman musician, comedian and actor (1953–2026)
- Andreas Knebelb. 1960DEEast German sprinter
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Knébel mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Knebel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Knébel?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Knébel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knebel. After it come Brazil, Poland, Argentina and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Knébel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Knébel is densest in Poland — about 1 in 133 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Knébel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,523 people named Knébel in 2010, about 1 in 218 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Knébel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kn%C3%A9belThe 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, “Knébel” — ranked 17710th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.