Miel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: honey (sticky sweet substance)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/mjɛl/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Miel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 180K
- CLChile≈1 in 190K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)honey (sticky sweet substance)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Miel is read
(measured from records)Miel is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English39%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Miel in English.
- French32%
honey (sticky sweet substance)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish17%
honey
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Miel, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Miel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Miel | 45 |
| FR France | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 99 | Miel | 2 |
| US United States | 187 | 1 in 1.8M | 204 | Miel | 122 |
| CL Chile | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 190K | 12 | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 192K | 3 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 65 | 1 in 180K | 65 | Miel | 40 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Miel is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, subst. 1. Mielu ipoc. obilnuit act. pentru Mihail 2. Mielescu, Gr., act. 3. Mielus fam. (Sur IV). Mier/a, -Sul, -ea, -es v. M e r a I 1, 3, 5. Allerkus, v.Mereut.4, 5. Mieri/oara, oril, -ul v. M e r a I 2, 4, 5.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In lad, honey (sticky sweet substance that bees produce)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pdt, mile (unit of distance equal to 5,283 feet)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, second-person singular imperative of mleć
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Edmé-François-Antoine-Marie Mielb. 1775FRFrench writer
- Alice Mielb. 1906USAmerican writer
- Maurice Mielb. 1925FRCyclist from France
- Rudi Mielb. 1965BEBelgian comics artist
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)44 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 178 | #35,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 53 | #35,030 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2023 | 3 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1960 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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 Miel mean, and where does it come from?
- honey (sticky sweet substance) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Miel?
- It depends on the language: in French /mjɛl/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ˈmjel/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Miel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Miel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miel.
- How common is the name Miel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 187 people named Miel in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Miel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mielThe 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, “Miel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.