Puls

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Puls is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Personal-characteristic surname; exact trait/derivation not given on this page.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 158K
  • BZBelize≈1 in 19K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,700 people, est.

Sources
244 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Belize, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Personal-characteristic surname; exact trait/derivation not given on this page.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Puls 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.

Where Puls is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈3,700 est.≈1 in 22KlistedPuls117
US United States—2,1011 in 158K2.1KPuls244
NG Nigeria—≈620 est.≈1 in 343K—Puls3
BR Brazil—2981 in 710K298Puls48
GB United Kingdom—≈230 est.≈1 in 288K21Puls35
AU Australia—≈200 est.≈1 in 126K—Puls48
IE Ireland—≈51 est.≈1 in 102K—Puls3
DK Denmark—481 in 122K48—1
BZ Belize#376≈21 est.≈1 in 19K—Puls1

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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Puls is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Püls

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Püls

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Püls

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Puls is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Berufsname, wohl indirekt zu mnd. puls 'Stange zum Fischeinscheuchen'; Fischer. Bearer count: 1653.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, 1. from ON Puls (Schleswig). 2. see BOL / BALD

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Polish, pulse (normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, a pulse (e.g. of a shock, heartbeat or sonar)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, meal, porridge, pottage, gruel, mush

    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)

1850190019502000Emil Puls, b. 1877Akseli Valtimo, b. 1896Abraham Puls, b. 1902Dierk Puls, b. 1913Hans Puls, b. 1914Hartmut Puls, b. 1941Hans-Joachim Puls, b. 1950Eric Puls, b. 1971Wiebke Puls, b. 1973Stephanie Puls, b. 1980

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.

Reference works 4

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 Puls mean, and where does it come from?
Personal-characteristic surname; exact trait/derivation not given on this page. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
In which country does Puls have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Puls in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled puls.
How common is the name Puls?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,101 people named Puls in 2010, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
How common is Puls compared with other names?
In Belize, Puls is the 376th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Puls” — the 376th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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