Nébel
surname · Latin script
Nébel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German nebel, from Old High German nebul, from Proto-Germanic *nebulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (whence also Proto-Balto-Slavic *néba, Proto-Indo-Iranian *nábʰas, Ancient Gre.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 31K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 35K
- UYUruguay1 in 36K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
2,272 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nebel in US United States.
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)
- Middle High Germannebel(measured from records)
- Old High Germannebul(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*nebulaz(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*nébʰoswhence also Proto-Balto-Slavic *néba“cloud, mist”(measured from records)
From Middle High German nebel, from Old High German nebul, from Proto-Germanic *nebulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (whence also Proto-Balto-Slavic *néba, Proto-Indo-Iranian *nábʰas, Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud, mist”), Latin nebula (“mist, fog”)). More at English nuel.
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nébel 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 | 2,272 | 1 in 146K | 2.3K | Nebel | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 273 | 1 in 31K | 273 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 170 | 1 in 35K | 170 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 108 | 1 in 2M | 108 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 94 | 1 in 36K | 94 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 1 |
2,272 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nébel mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle High German nebel, from Old High German nebul, from Proto-Germanic *nebulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (whence also Proto-Balto-Slavic *néba, Proto-Indo-Iranian *nábʰas, Ancient Gre… Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Nébel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Nébel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nebel.
- Where is Nébel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nébel is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nébel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,272 people named Nébel in 2010, about 1 in 146 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/n%C3%A9belThe 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, “Nébel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.