Moehle
surname · Latin script
Meaning: North German (Mohle); topographic name for someone living near a mill, or a metonymic occupational name for a miller or worker in a mill, from Middle Low German mole ‘mill’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Moehle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 410Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 572K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1Mfew records
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 Moehle 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
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 192K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 named Möhle, 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 Mohle in ZA South Africa, PK Pakistan, MT Malta and Möhle in DE Germany.
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)North German (Mohle); topographic name for someone living near a mill, or a metonymic occupational name for a miller or worker in a mill, from Middle Low German mole ‘mill’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Moehle is found
(measured from records)Moehle 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 | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Möhle | 68 |
| US United States | — | 582 | 1 in 572K | 596 | Moehle | 158 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Mohle | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 351K | — | Mohle | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 408K | — | Moehle | 26 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Moehle | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Moehle | 1 |
| ML Mali | #269 | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Moehle | 1 |
| MT Malta | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Mohle | 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 2000; the dfa-band-1 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles Moehleb. 1859USAmerican chess player (1859-1898)
- Karl-Heinz Moehleb. 1910DEGerman U-boat commander
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moehle mean, and where does it come from?
- North German (Mohle); topographic name for someone living near a mill, or a metonymic occupational name for a miller or worker in a mill, from Middle Low German mole ‘mill’ Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Moehle?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Möhle in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Pakistan, South Africa and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Moehle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 582 people named Moehle in 2010, about 1 in 572 thousand residents.
- How common is Moehle compared with other names?
- In Mali, Moehle is the 269th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moehleThe 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, “Moehle” — the 269th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.