Störkel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Nachname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: zu mhd (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
Störkel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 340Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
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 Störkel 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
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 339K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 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 Storkel in US United States, CA Canada, IE Ireland.
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)Nachname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: zu mhd. storc(h), mnd. stork 'Storch'; meist für Menschen mit langen Beinen oder storchartiger Gangart. 182 Träger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Störkel is found
(measured from records)Störkel 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 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Störkel | 33 |
| US United States | 141 | 1 in 2.4M | 141 | Storkel | 84 |
| FR France | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 9 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 348K | — | Storkel | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Storkel | 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Störkel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Übername nach dem Vogel Storch; vermutlich für eine langbeinige oder steif schreitende Person; 182 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Störkel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nachname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: zu mhd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Störkel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 246 people named Störkel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled störkel. After it come United States, France, Ireland and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Störkel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Störkel in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%B6rkelThe 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, “Störkel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.