Mägel
surname · Latin script
Mägel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a female personal name derived from the Germanic female personal name Machthild, composed of the elements macht ‘strength’, ‘might’ + hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’.
- DEGermany≈1 in 94K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 300Kfew records
- BEBelgium1 in 308K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Magel in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada and 5 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)from a female personal name derived from the Germanic female personal name Machthild, composed of the elements macht ‘strength’, ‘might’ + hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mägel is found
(measured from records)Mägel 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 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | MageL | 65 |
| IN India | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | MageL | 4 |
| US United States | 452 | 1 in 736K | 499 | MageL | 145 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | MageL | 36 |
| BR Brazil | 103 | 1 in 2.1M | 103 | MageL | 11 |
| BE Belgium | 38 | 1 in 308K | 38 | MageL | 7 |
| CU Cuba | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 298K | — | MageL | 2 |
| SG Singapore | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | MageL | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 Mägel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a female personal name derived from the Germanic female personal name Machthild, composed of the elements macht ‘strength’, ‘might’ + hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mägel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 893 people named Mägel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled MageL. After it come India, United States, Canada and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mägel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 452 people named Mägel in 2010, about 1 in 736 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4gelThe 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, “Mägel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.