Rebèl
surname · Latin script
Rebèl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English rebel, rebell, from Old French rebelle, from Latin rebellis (“waging war again; insurgent”), from rebellō (“I wage war again, fight back”), from re- (“again, back”) + bellō (“I wag.
- DEGermany≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 641K
- NLNetherlands1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rebel in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 2 more.
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 Englishrebel(measured from records)
- Old Frenchrebelle(measured from records)
- Latinrebellis“waging war again; insurgent”(measured from records)
- Latin rootrebellō“I wage war again“I wage war again, fight back”(measured from records)
- Latin rootre-“again“again, back”(measured from records)
From Middle English rebel, rebell, from Old French rebelle, from Latin rebellis (“waging war again; insurgent”), from rebellō (“I wage war again, fight back”), from re- (“again, back”) + bellō (“I wage war”).
Sources 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rebèl 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 667K | — | Rebel | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,306 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Rebel | 51 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Rebel | 78 |
| US United States | 519 | 1 in 641K | 942 | Rebel | 195 |
| FR France | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 131K | 62 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Rebel | 8 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | — | 6 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Rebèl mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English rebel, rebell, from Old French rebelle, from Latin rebellis (“waging war again; insurgent”), from rebellō (“I wage war again, fight back”), from re- (“again, back”) + bellō (“I wag… Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Rebèl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Rebèl in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rebel.
- Where is Rebèl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rebèl is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rebèl?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,306 people named Rebèl in 2007, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reb%C3%A8lThe 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, “Rebèl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.