Märkl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutiv zu Markwart; 1029+649+510 Belege (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Märkl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 10Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 37K
- DEGermany≈1 in 50K
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 Märkl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Markl in US United States, AT Austria, CH Switzerland.
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)Diminutiv zu Markwart; 1029+649+510 Belege. Muster: -l-Hypokoristikum mit Stammvokal-Varianten.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Märkl is found
(measured from records)Märkl 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 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Märkl | 81 |
| AT Austria | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Markl | 51 |
| US United States | 192 | 1 in 1.7M | 197 | Markl | 115 |
| CZ Czechia | 134 | 1 in 80K | 135 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 57 | 1 in 37K | 57 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 52 | 1 in 162K | 52 | Markl | 7 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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)- Gottfried Märklb. 1929DEGerman chemist
- Jun Märklb. 1959DEGerman conductor
- Niklas Märklb. 1999DEGerman road racing cyclist
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Märkl come from?
- Diminutiv zu Markwart; 1029+649+510 Belege. Muster: -l-Hypokoristikum mit Stammvokal-Varianten. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- What does the name Märkl mean?
- Recorded meaning: Diminutiv zu Markwart; 1029+649+510 Belege.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Märkl?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Märkl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled märkl. After it come Austria, United States, Czechia and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Märkl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192 people named Märkl in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4rklThe 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, “Märkl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.