Märkel
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Märkel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Markolf composed of the elements marc, mere ‘boundary’ -i- wolf ‘wolf’.
- DEGermany≈1 in 570Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 11M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8Mas Maerkel
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 Märkel 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)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 572K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Maerkel in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CH Switzerland.
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)from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Markolf composed of the elements marc, mere ‘boundary’ -i- wolf ‘wolf’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Märkel is found
(measured from records)Märkel 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 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 572K | — | Märkel | 30 |
| US United States | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 29M | listed | Maerkel | 14 |
| SE Sweden | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 937K | — | Märkel | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Maerkel | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3as Maerkel | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | Maerkel | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)- Johann Christian Friedrich Märkelb. 1790DEGerman entomologist (1790-1860)
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Märkel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Markolf composed of the elements marc, mere ‘boundary’ -i- wolf ‘wolf’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Märkel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 146 people named Märkel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled märkel. After it come United States, Sweden, United Kingdom and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Märkel?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1 people named Märkel, about 1 in 11 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4rkelThe 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, “Märkel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.