Nägele
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname für den Nagelschmied; zu mhd./mnd
/nɛɡələ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nägele is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Liechtenstein it is the 33rd most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 274Kas Naegele
- ATAustria≈1 in 13K
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 Nägele 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, 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 Naegele in US United States, CH Switzerland, CN China and Nagele in AT Austria, LI Liechtenstein, BM Bermuda.
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)
Berufsname für den Nagelschmied; zu mhd./mnd. nagel 'Nagel'. Bearer count: 2277.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nägele 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Naegele | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Nägele | 78 |
| US United States | — | 1,216as Naegele | 1 in 274K | 1.2K | Naegele | 187 |
| AT Austria | #703 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Nagele | 53 |
| BR Brazil | — | 212as Naegele | 1 in 999K | 212 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 139 | 1 in 60K | 139 | Naegele | 16 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #33 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 85 | Nagele | 6 |
| BM Bermuda | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Nagele | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). 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)
Nägele is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Übername mit Diminutiv -le; 53+1478 Belege, weitere Schreibvarianten belegt. Morphologisches Muster: -le-Diminutiv mit Vokal-/Schreibvarianten.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Schwäbisch/alemannische Form zu Nagel; berufsbezogen: Nagel-/Kleinmetall-Schmied; 2277 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Diminutiv-/Hypokoristikum-Surname mit -le; Bearer count: 1478.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Ferdinand Naegeleb. 1808DEpolitician (1808-1879)
- Eugen Nägeleb. 1856DEWürttembergian teacher (1856-1937)
- Anton Nägeleb. 1876DEGerman priest and historian (1876-1947)
- Reinhold Nägeleb. 1884DEGerman painter (1884-1972)
- Karl Hieronymus Nägeleb. 1911DEGerman jurist (1911–1979)
- Edmund Nägeleb. 1942DEGerman photographer
- Rainer Nägeleb. 1943LILiechtensteiner-American literary scholar
- Sibylle Nägeleb. 1943DEGerman stage actor (1943-2015)
- Oliver Nägeleb. 1957DEGerman actor
- Frank Nägeleb. 1964DEGerman politician
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 139 | #8,453 |
| LI Liechtenstein | Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames) | 2020 | 85 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nägele?
- A machine transcription gives /nɛɡələ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Nägele mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname für den Nagelschmied; zu mhd./mnd.
- In which country does Nägele have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Nägele in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naegele.
- How common is the name Nägele?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 139 people named Nägele in 2024, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Nägele compared with other names?
- In Liechtenstein, Nägele is the 33rd most common surname of 283 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A4geleThe 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, “Nägele” — the 33rd most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.