Rödl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: zu Rud[olf] / mhd. rodel 'Liste, Urkunde'; 652 Belege
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rödl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 67K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 738Kas Roedl
- ATAustria≈1 in 136K
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 Rödl 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
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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 Roedl in US United States, BE Belgium, GH Ghana.
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)
zu Rud[olf] / mhd. rodel 'Liste, Urkunde'; 652 Belege. Muster: Kurzform + -l.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rödl 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.
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; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Arthur Rödlb. 1898DESchutzstaffel officer, Nazi concentration camp commandant
- Ludwig Rödlb. 1907DEGerman chess player (1907–1970)
- Helmut Rödlb. 1939DEGerman merchant, jurist and entrepreneur (1939-2020)
- Bernd Rödlb. 1943DEGerman auditor
- Vojtěch Rödlb. 1949USCzech mathematician
- Josef Rödlb. 1949DEGerman director
- Pavel Rödlb. 1959CZCzech politician
- Sebastian Rödlb. 1967DEGerman Philosopher
- Henrik Rödlb. 1969DEGerman basketball player and coach
- Manuel Rödlb. 1982ATAustrian association football player
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 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 50 | #29,264 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Rödl mean?
- Recorded meaning: zu Rud[olf] / mhd. rodel 'Liste, Urkunde'; 652 Belege.
- In which country does Rödl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Rödl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rödl.
- How common is the name Rödl?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 50 people named Rödl, about 1 in 214 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/r%C3%B6dlThe 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, “Rödl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.