Muehl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Miihle (see Muhle)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmjuɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muehl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 33Kas Mühl(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 606Kas Muhl
- MLMali≈1 in 58K
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 Muehl 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)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 named Mühl, est.
Highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Muhl in US United States, CH Switzerland, EG Egypt and Mühl in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)
variant of Miihle (see Muhle).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muehl 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 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Mühl | 75 |
| BR Brazil | 954as Muhl | 1 in 222K | 954 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 549as Muhl | 1 in 606K | 560 | Muhl | 168 |
| ML Mali | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Muehl | 1 |
| EG Egypt | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 445K | — | Muhl | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Mühl | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | 106as Muhl | 1 in 79K | 106 | Muhl | 15 |
| FI Finland | 30as Muhl | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dfa-band-1 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Heinrich Mühlb. 1901DEGerman politician (1901-1963)
- Karl Otto Mühlb. 1923DEGerman author (1923-2020)
- Otto Muehlb. 1925ATAustrian artist (1925-2013)
- Roger Mühlb. 1929FRFrench painter (1929-2008)
- Werner Mühlb. 1937DEGerman writer
- Christa Mühlb. 1947DEGerman television director (1947–2019)
- Melanie Mühlb. 1976DEGerman journalist
- Attila Muehlb. 1985ATAustrian jazz guitarist and composer
- Lukas Mühlb. 1997DEGerman association football player
- Simone Mühlb. 2000DEGerman archaeologist of Near eastern cultures
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 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 470 | #43,290 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 460 | #46,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 429 | #52,263 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Muehl mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Miihle (see Muhle). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Muehl?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmjuɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Muehl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Mühl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Muehl?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 954 people named Muhl, about 1 in 222 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muehlThe 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, “Muehl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.