Stählin
surname · Latin script
Stählin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.5Mas Staehlin(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 29K
- SESweden≈1 in 159K
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 Stählin 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
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 Staehlin in US United States, CH Switzerland, SG Singapore and Stahlin in SE Sweden, CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stählin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Stahlin | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 292 | 1 in 29K | 292 | Staehlin | 24 |
| US United States | 135as Staehlin | 1 in 2.5M | 135 | Staehlin | 92 |
| DE Germany | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 985K | — | Stählin | 24 |
| SE Sweden | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Stahlin | 10 |
| SG Singapore | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Staehlin | 2 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peter Stählinb. 1744RUdiplomat and military officer
- Adolf von Stählinb. 1823DEGerman theologian (1823-1897)
- Karl Stählinb. 1865DEGerman historian of eastern europe (1865–1939)
- Otto Stählinb. 1868DEGerman teacher and classical philologist (1868-1949)
- Friedrich Stählinb. 1874DEGerman classical philologist (1874-1936)
- Wilhelm Stählinb. 1883DEGerman Lutheran theologian (1883-1975)
- Gustav Stählinb. 1900DEGerman theologian (1900–1985)
- Adolf Stählinb. 1901DEGerman university teacher (1901-1992)
- Rudolf Stählinb. 1911DEGerman church historian and theologian (1911–2006)
- Christof Stählinb. 1942DEGerman writer (1942–2015)
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 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Stählin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 559 people named Stählin in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stahlin.
- Where is Stählin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stählin is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stählin?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 292 people named Stählin in 2024, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stählin?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%A4hlinThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Stählin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.