Mandel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: In 1700 and 1800 in Osterburken and Mosbach, d
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mændəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mandel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 37K
- USUnited States1 in 50K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
6,703 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
In 1700 and 1800 in Osterburken and Mosbach, d. Upper Rhine. Mandel is = almond; common for Jewish families in the area of Mosbach. A form also of the Mendel
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mandel 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 | 6,703 | 1 in 50K | 6.7K | Mandel | 386 |
| DE Germany | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Mandel | 121 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Mandel | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Mandel | 89 |
| MA Morocco | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Mandel | 7 |
| AT Austria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Mandel | 21 |
6,703 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. 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)
Mandel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from Middle Dutch mandel(e), a term denoting a certain number of sheaves of harvested wheat (12-15).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
possibly a habitational name from any of various places named Mandel, for example near Bingen, or Mandeln.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, almond
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Diminutiv-/Hypokoristikum-Surname mit -el; Bearer count: 1402.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Jewish: back-formation from MENDEL , assumed by folk etymology to be from German Männl , a diminutive of Mann man. It probably has no connection with the Yiddish vocabulary word mandel almond.
as a word
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)
- Georges Mandelb. 1885FRFrench Jewish politician, resistance fighter and art collector, murdered in the Holocaust (1885-1944)
- Ernest Mandelb. 1923BEBelgian economist and Marxist philosopher (1923–1995)
- Johnny Mandelb. 1925USAmerican composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz (1925-2020)
- Loring Mandelb. 1928USAmerican writer
- Robert Mandelb. 1945USAmerican film director and producer
- Harvey Mandelb. 1945USAmerican guitarist
- Babaloo Mandelb. 1949USAmerican screenwriter (born 1949)
- Fred Mandelb. 1953CACanadian session musician
- Howie Mandelb. 1955CACanadian comedian, television personality, screenwriter, actor, voice actor, producer, director, entrepreneur, game show host, author and podcaster
- Emily St. John Mandelb. 1979CACanadian writer (born 1979)
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 49 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.7K | #5,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.5K | #4,940 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.5K | #5,204 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Mandel come from?
- In 1700 and 1800 in Osterburken and Mosbach, d. Upper Rhine. Mandel is = almond; common for Jewish families in the area of Mosbach. A form also of the Mendel Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Mandel?
- A machine transcription gives /mændəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mandel mean?
- Recorded meaning: In 1700 and 1800 in Osterburken and Mosbach, d.
- In which country does Mandel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.7 thousand people named Mandel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mandel.
- How common is the name Mandel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,703 people named Mandel in 2010, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mandelThe 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, “Mandel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.