Brandl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutiv zu Brand mit Suffix -l; morphologisches Muster: Verkleinerung/Patronymikon
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bʁandəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Brandl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.8K
- USUnited States1 in 185K
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)
- Record sources
- 204 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Diminutiv zu Brand mit Suffix -l; morphologisches Muster: Verkleinerung/Patronymikon. Bearer count: 1731.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Brandl 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #551 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Brandl | 171 |
| AT Austria | #190 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Brandl | 91 |
| US United States | — | 1,802 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Brandl | 204 |
| BR Brazil | — | 372 | 1 in 569K | 372 | — | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 925K | — | Brandl | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 126 | 1 in 85K | 126 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 115 | 1 in 73K | 115 | Brandl | 27 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 42 | 1 in 81K | 42 | — | — |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Brandl is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Bair. Diminutiv auf -l/-ndl; zu Brand als Grundwort. 4989 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, l-Diminutiv mit -l zu Brand-/Brend-; 11 Types/5499 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Diminutiv auf -l; zu Hildebrand. 4989 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Petr Brandlb. 1668CZCzech painter and portrait painter (1668-1735)
- Therese Brandlb. 1902DENazi concentration camp guard (1902–1948)
- Max Brandlb. 1938DEGerman politician (1938)
- Uwe Brandlb. 1959DEGerman politician
- Martina Brandlb. 1966DEGerman cabaret performer, writer and singer
- Reinhard Brandlb. 1977DEmember of the Bundestag
- Martin Brandlb. 1981DEGerman politician
- David Brandlb. 1987ATAustrian swimmer
- Nadine Brandlb. 1990ATAustrian synchronized swimmer
- Lorena Brandlb. 1997DEGerman taekwondo practitioner
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,071 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,586 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 372 | #22,083 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 126 | #13,454 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 125 | #6,985 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 115 | #9,900 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 42 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Brandl?
- A machine transcription gives /bʁandəl/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Brandl mean?
- Recorded meaning: Diminutiv zu Brand mit Suffix -l; morphologisches Muster: Verkleinerung/Patronymikon.
- In which country does Brandl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Brandl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brandl.
- How common is the name Brandl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,802 people named Brandl in 2010, about 1 in 185 thousand residents.
- How common is Brandl compared with other names?
- In Germany, Brandl is the 551st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/brandlThe 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, “Brandl” — the 551st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.