Nachtigal
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Nachtigal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Nachtigall.
- CZCzechia1 in 45K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
- BRBrazil1 in 1.3M
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 Nachtigal itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
466 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled נכטיגל in IL Israel, PL Poland, LV Latvia.
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 spelling of Nachtigall.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nachtigal 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 | 466 | 1 in 714K | 467 | Nachtigal | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | 236 | 1 in 45K | 236 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 162 | 1 in 1.3M | 162 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 54 | 1 in 709K | 30 | נכטיגל | 2 |
| IL Israel | 43as נכטיגל | 1 in 202K | 43 | נכטיגל | 15 |
| RO Romania | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 573K | — | Nachtigal | 2 |
| LV Latvia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | נכטיגל | 2 |
466 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)Nachtigal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In stq, nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
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)- Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigalb. 1753DEGerman writer and theologian
- Gustav Nachtigalb. 1834DEGerman physician, consul-general and explorer of Central and West Africa (1834–1885)
- Petr Nachtigalb. 1975CZresearcher
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 467 | #48,797 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 466 | #45,804 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 399 | #49,471 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 236 | #7,130 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 236 | #5,141 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 162 | #43,605 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #69,979 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,818 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
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 Nachtigal mean, and where does it come from?
- variant spelling of Nachtigall. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Nachtigal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 466 people named Nachtigal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nachtigal.
- Where is Nachtigal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nachtigal is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nachtigal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 466 people named Nachtigal in 2010, about 1 in 714 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/nachtigalThe 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, “Nachtigal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.