Eitel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: vain (overly proud of oneself, especially one’s outer appearance)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈaɪtəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eitel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 220K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 233K
- PLPoland1 in 1.5M
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)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 220K (inferred from the name graph)
1,509 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
vain (overly proud of oneself, especially one’s outer appearance)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eitel 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 | 1,509 | 1 in 220K | 1.5K | Eitel | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 60 | 1 in 3.5M | 77 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 26 | 1 in 1.5M | 14 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | 1 |
1,509 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Eitel 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, männl. Vom. Unser Wort »eitel«, das heute gewöhnlich im Sinne von »eingebildet, selbstgefällig« verwendet wird, bedeutete früher auch noch »rein, unverfälscht; ledig lich, bloß, nur«. Etwa in dieser Bedeutung erscheint der Name im 13./14. Jh. zunächst als einziger Vorname. Seit Ende des 14. Jh.s wurde Eitel dann in Verbindung mit einem weiteren Vornamen verwendet, vor allem im
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Viktor Adolf Eitelb. 1845HULutheran pastor, head teacher and politician (1845-1924)
- George G. Eitelb. 1858USAmerican surgeon; designed and built Eitel Hospital
- Albert Eitelb. 1866DEGerman architect (1866-1934)
- Anton Eitelb. 1882DEGerman regional historian and historian
- Albert Eitelb. 1887DEGerman landrat
- Otto K. Eitelb. 1901USAmerican hotelier (1901-1983)
- Tono Eitelb. 1933DEGerman jurist (1933-2017)
- Bernhard Eitelb. 1959DEGerman earth scientist and university teacher (born 1959)
- Tim Eitelb. 1971DEGerman painter
- Grzegorz Eitelb. 1981PLPolish judoka
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)
Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #17,995 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,354 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,639 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #92,187 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 36 | #23,866 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #109,615 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #120,413 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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 does the name Eitel mean, and where does it come from?
- vain (overly proud of oneself, especially one’s outer appearance) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Eitel?
- In the etymology graph, Idle is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Eitel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈaɪtəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Eitel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Eitel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eitel.
- Where is Eitel most common?
- Eitel is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 220 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Eitel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,509 people named Eitel in 2010, about 1 in 220 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Eitel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eitelThe 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, “Eitel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.