Seidel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/saɪdl̩/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Seidel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 39K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 40K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 18K
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 Seidel 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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 Seidl in AG Antigua & Barbuda.
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)
Hd. l-diminutive surname type with -el, -lein, -le, -li(n), -l; contrast to nd. k-suffix types; 122 types/267819 tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
How Seidel is read(measured from records)
Seidel is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English46%
A large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German40%
Hd. l-diminutive surname type with -el, -lein, -le, -li(n), -l; contrast to nd. k-suffix types; 122 types/267819 tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
tankard
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
zu ahd. sigu 'Sieg'; Rufname Seidel/Sig-
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Diminutivpatronym zu Siegfried; Suffix -el (< ahd. -ilo/-ila, mhd. -el(e)); 18.865 Belege. Demonstriert die ostmd./nordobd. Diminutivbildung mit -el.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Deutscher Familienname mit -el/-l-Diminutiv; zeigt die süddeutsche Reduktion bzw. Variante des Suffixes. Morphologisches Muster: -el vs. -l.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seidel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Seidel | 5 |
| US United States | — | 8,430 | 1 in 39K | 8.4K | Seidel | 355 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,502 | 1 in 60K | 3.5K | — | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,769as Seidl | 1 in 6K | 1.8K | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 142 | Seidel | 59 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,086 | 1 in 35K | 596 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 455 | 1 in 18K | 455 | Seidel | 17 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Seidel | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 64as Seidl | 1 in 33K | 64 | — | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #194 | — | — | — | Seidl | 1 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Philipp Ludwig von Seidelb. 1821DEGerman mathematician, optician and astronomer (1821-1896)
- Emil Seidelb. 1864USAmerican politician (1864–1947)
- Toscha Seidelb. 1899USRussian-American musician (1899–1962)
- Hanns Seidelb. 1901DEGerman politician (1901–1961)
- Wladimir Seidelb. 1907USGerman mathematician (1907–1981)
- Alex Seidelb. 1909DEGerman businessman (1909-1989)
- Wolfgang Seidelb. 1926DEracecar driver and entrant (1926–1987)
- Erik Seidelb. 1959USAmerican poker player (born 1959)
- Christiane Seidelb. 1988USAmerican-born German-Danish actress
- Leon Seidelb. 1996DEGerman actor
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.4K | #4,204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.4K | #3,898 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.8K | #4,374 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.5K | #3,007 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 596 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 596 | #5,418 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 490 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 490 | #6,548 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 455 | #2,863 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 197 | #8,580 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 197 | #5,643 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 142 | #26,496 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Seidel come from?
- Hd. l-diminutive surname type with -el, -lein, -le, -li(n), -l; contrast to nd. k-suffix types; 122 types/267819 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Seidel?
- A machine transcription gives /saɪdl̩/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Seidel mean?
- In English, A large beer mug or tankard, especially one with a lid.
- In which country does Seidel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Seidel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seidel.
- Where is Seidel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Seidel is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Seidel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,430 people named Seidel in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Seidel compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Seidel is the 194th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seidelThe 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, “Seidel” — the 194th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.