Pahl
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Pahl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 20Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 36Kfew records
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
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pahl 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 | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Pahl | 135 |
| US United States | — | 3,864 | 1 in 86K | 4.3K | Pahl | 271 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Pahl | 104 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 133K | 83 | Pahl | 66 |
| BR Brazil | — | 474 | 1 in 447K | 474 | Pahl | 43 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Pahl | 26 |
| FI Finland | — | 81 | 1 in 69K | 81 | — | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #958 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Pahl | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Georg Pahlb. 1900DEGerman photojournalist and photographer (1900-1963)
- Ray Pahlb. 1935GBBritish sociologist (1935–2011)
- Jörg-Peter Pahlb. 1939DEGerman pedagogue
- Fritz-Wilhelm Pahlb. 1941DEGerman businessman
- Greg Pahlb. 1946USAmerican journalist
- Franz Pahlb. 1949ITItalian teacher (born 1949)
- Jürgen Pahlb. 1956DEGerman footballer
- Vernon Pahlb. 1957CACanadian gridiron football player
- Hans-Heinrich Pahlb. 1960DEGerman footballer
- Witold Pahlb. 1961PLPolish politician and deputy
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.9K | #8,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,860 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 474 | #17,893 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 83 | #37,228 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 81 | #15,111 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 41 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- In which country does Pahl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Pahl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pahl.
- How common is the name Pahl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,864 people named Pahl in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
- How common is Pahl compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Pahl is the 958th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pahl?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pahlThe 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, “Pahl” — the 958th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.