Hoerl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Herl, a pet form of Hermann, found chiefly in Bavaria (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hoerl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2Mfew records
- ATAustria≈1 in 14Kfew recordsas Hörl
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 Hoerl 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)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 695K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 named Hörl, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, 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 Horl in CH Switzerland, IN India, BW Botswana and Hörl in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)variant of Herl, a pet form of Hermann, found chiefly in Bavaria.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hoerl is found
(measured from records)Hoerl 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 | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 40K | listed | Hörl | 58 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hörl | 31 |
| US United States | — | 283 | 1 in 1.2M | 283 | Hoerl | 111 |
| BW Botswana | #620 | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Horl | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 27M | — | Horl | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 17as Hörl | 1 in 630K | 17 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 13as Hörl | 1 in 646K | 13 | Horl | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 695K | — | Hoerl | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)- Arthur Hoerlb. 1891USscreenwriter, film director
- Roger Wesley Hoerlb. 1957USstatistician
- Christoph Hoerlb. 1967GBBritish philosopher
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hoerl mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Herl, a pet form of Hermann, found chiefly in Bavaria. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hoerl?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Hörl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Austria, United States, Botswana and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hoerl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 283 people named Hoerl in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Hoerl compared with other names?
- In Botswana, Hoerl is the 620th most common surname of 987 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/hoerlThe 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, “Hoerl” — the 620th most common surname in Botswana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.