Berthel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Barthélemy; issu de l’araméen bar-Tolmai, « fils de Tolmaï »
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/bɝθəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berthel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 61K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 247K
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
247 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variante de Barthélemy; issu de l’araméen bar-Tolmai, « fils de Tolmaï ».
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Berthel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 247 | 1 in 1.3M | 277 | Berthel | 14 |
| DK Denmark | 96 | 1 in 61K | 96 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 34 | 1 in 247K | 34 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 8 | 1 in 2.2M | 14 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | Berthel | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
247 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Kurt Berthelb. 1897DEGerman politician (1897-1960)
- Hans Berthelb. 1914DEGerman fighter pilot (1914–2003)
- Werner Berthelb. 1935DEDutch literary editor
- Dierk Berthelb. 1963DEGerman sculptor
- Pia Berthelb. 2001DEGerman association football player
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 277 | #75,111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 276 | #66,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 96 | #5,676 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 34 | #24,910 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #67,612 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #169,846 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Berthel?
- In the etymology graph, Berthelsen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Berthel?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝθəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Berthel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Barthélemy; issu de l’araméen bar-Tolmai, « fils de Tolmaï ».
- In which country does Berthel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 247 people named Berthel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berthel.
- Where is Berthel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Berthel is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Berthel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 247 people named Berthel in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berthelThe 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, “Berthel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.